The Reaping Quotes

“Don’t you see?” she continued. “We shouldn’t do anything for the dead. We have only one job on this earth, and it has to do with the living: we must love those put in our path as hard as we can, every day.”
― Jess Lourey, The Reaping

“The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don’t know what you’re doing, someone else does. —Frequently attributed to Immanuel Kant”
― Jess Lourey, The Reaping

“The latest science suggests that dream sleep resets our brain chemicals by washing them in cerebrospinal fluid and tidies up the thoughts and emotions of the day by consolidating them.”
― Jess Lourey, The Reaping

“When you went home, you came back to the person you used to be, for better or worse.”
― Jess Lourey, The Reaping

“courage came at garage-sale prices when there was a mom and a light switch nearby.”
― Jess Lourey, The Reaping

“We have only one job on this earth, and it has to do with the living: we must love those put in our path as hard as we can, every day.”
― Jess Lourey, The Reaping

“The dead don’t want us to mourn, Harry.” She squeezed his hands again. “They don’t want for anything; they’re with God.”
― Jess Lourey, The Reaping

“Don’t do anything to others you wouldn’t want done to you.”
― Jess Lourey, The Reaping