The Dead Don't Dance Quotes

“I do know this: most people, myself included, are at their most vulnerable in a journal. They pour it all out. Sometimes a journal is the only ear that will listen, or at least the only one that you want to talk to.”
― Charles Martin, The Dead Don't Dance

“When you boil it down,” he said, holding out his hand and counting with his fingers, “all we got left, all anybody’s got, is faith . . . and hope . . . and love.” He looked at his three fingers. “And we all gonna make it. All three of us.”
― Charles Martin, The Dead Don't Dance

“Brothers and sisters, a demon’s job is to kill you. To beat you to death. To rob you of anything that is not painful. This railing is where you give more than you take. Where you steal back. Where you kill what’s killing you. Then, having chased and slain, you return”—Pastor John pointed to the pews and folding chairs—“bloody but unharmed, different but the same, changed but unchanged, moved but unmoved. A living battleground.”
― Charles Martin, The Dead Don't Dance