Ankle Snatcher Quotes

“She had brown eyes, and I found them and held them with mine, and she instinctively looked away; then she looked back, then she stopped moving and looked at me with a very faint smile on her lips. We looked at each other until it was obvious what was going on, and then we looked a little longer.”
― Grady Hendrix, Ankle Snatcher

“They live in our closets and under our beds, and after dark they come out when we break the rules. We’re serving time for the boogeymen’s crimes.”
― Grady Hendrix, Ankle Snatcher

“She had shown me who she was, and now she was shutting down because she knew what came next.”
― Grady Hendrix, Ankle Snatcher

“They never asked me a single question about Tess or what happened last night. They had no interest in me or anything I had to say. I wasn’t a person. I was a crime.”
― Grady Hendrix, Ankle Snatcher

“Is that some alpha-male move?” she asked around her straw. “Extended eye contact to assert dominance?” “I saw it on the Discovery Channel,” I said. “Did it work? Do you feel like prey?”
― Grady Hendrix, Ankle Snatcher

“every single one of them told me two things: my father was a liar, and I was not going to grow up to be like him. Turned out they were wrong on both counts.”
― Grady Hendrix, Ankle Snatcher