Mockingbird Quotes

“Always quick with the wit. It's your defense, isn't it? Little girl doesn't want the world to know how sad she is, how damaged. Your words, your attitude, all a big misdirection. A magician's trick.”
― Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird

“She gets on her tippy-toes and kisses him. Long, slow, deep. The kind of kiss where you can feel little pieces of your soul trading places as mouths open and breath mingles.”
― Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird

“Who hasn’t looked around their work environment and played the “What around here could be a weapon?” game?”
― Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird

“It's probably the only attraction in Shartlesburg, Pennsylvania, a town whose name Miriam finds so funny she, well, nearly sharts every time she hears it.”
― Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird

“Emotionally she's a garage full of cats on fire.”
― Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird

“Ah. I like my coffee like I like my men. Hot, black, and coming down my throat.”
― Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird

“The décor makes Miriam want to dry heave – it's all down-home country fun with a curious fixation on roosters. Katey hangs her keys on a wooden rooster whose feet are little hooks. She takes a cookie out of a ceramic jar shaped like a rooster. Embroidered rooster pillows. A rooster rug by the door. Miriam tries to bite back the words but they're like butterflies that duck the swooping net. "You sure do love cock," she says. Katey blanches, shocked. Blood draining from her face. "Sorry," Miriam says. "Couldn't help myself. It's like a sickness." But then the teacher quivers and shakes and erupts like Vesuvius, her sudden and uncontrolled laughter swiftly drowning out worry. "I guess I do love…" she says, tears streaming from her eyes. "Cock!”
― Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird

“Grade school – elementary and up – is like being dropped in a dunk tank filled with starving piranha.   And they never get full.”
― Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird

“A chill crawls up Miriam's spine. A parade of baby spiders.”
― Chuck Wendig, Mockingbird