Sacrificial Animals Quotes

“At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's Crossing that his father so carefully constructed for his sons”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Sawing off all trace of a Midwestern accent from his anodyne English he is exacting in his deception; he refuses the moniker of America’s heartland and jeers at any hint of the provincial. No sense about him that he could unload and clean a hunting rifle in the dark without shooting his finger off nor that he has hunted geese knee-deep in brackish water a shorthaired pointer crashing into the lake after him. No sense at all that he has known the thrill of an apex predator vanquishing all manner of animal before him. Greyhounds with no table manners bloodying the foyer of his grand house with gore. That was the Nick of his childhood. Now he is a different man, an impostor.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“He goes out of the house with his father’s hunting rifle like an angel sent by God to do his killing work. Had he any sense he would have killed his father with it long ago but he has not. Patricide is the least of his concerns.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Since sunup his pallor has been that of a dead man drifting from delirium to delirium. Nausea overtakes him; the ascent of a singular summertime mania.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Time will destroy all these memories. In their forties there will be nothing here expect the easy and complacent amnesia of childhood.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“But now he has been thoroughly seduced by her suffering, her vulnerability. As men are attracted to a woman in pain. He envisions an affair extravagant and uncontrollable as the creek when it floods. A disastrous and untimely end to his family.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Nick knows his friends' fathers often come home from town smelling of alcohol or worse, but Carlyle reeks of nothing but the singular urge to destroy.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“Young and having barely grown his first pair of antlers he is innocent of this fatal desire to engrave himself into the body of another. Reworking and remaking the fabric of his destiny, skin against skin.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? With the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's Crossing that his father so carefully constructed for his sons.”
― Kailee Pedersen, Sacrificial Animals

“At dinner parties he might say, I'm from Nebraska, and you? Wih the smug self-indulgence of a man who is from somewhere but no longer inhabits it, has no longer any need of that place called Stag's Crossing that his father so carefully constructed for his sons.”
― kailee pedersen, Sacrificial Animals