The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl Quotes

“I go slowly, one tentative step at a time, and clutch the banister with both hands—death may not scare me, but hip replacement surgery isn’t on my bucket list.”
― Bart Yates, The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

“Aggie nudged my arm gently—she must’ve caught me wiping my eyes—and I grunted in disbelief when I realized she was trying to pass the candle. I took a deep breath, then accepted the silly damn thing from her, unable to keep from smiling a little in spite of my sadness and fear. Of course she still wanted to play. We might not have a home anymore, and God only knew how much time we had left together on the planet, but at least we could fire off childish insults at each other and share another laugh or two before our game was finally over. It was who we were, after all, who we’d always been. I handed the candle back to her, just to make her happy.”
― Bart Yates, The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

“The candle flickered as the rumble became more and more deafening. Aggie began to look alarmed as well, so Bo took pity on us and held out his hands. Aggie and I seized one each, then I offered her my free hand as well. She gripped it with surprising strength, and the three of us held tightly to each other, just as we’d been doing one way or another for nearly nine decades.”
― Bart Yates, The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

“The odds of a tornado actually hitting us are a million to one,” Aggie reminded me. “So were the odds of us getting hit by an avalanche,” I retorted.”
― Bart Yates, The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

“When you’re a kid it’s an adventure if the power goes off,” I said, groping my way back into our pitch-black living room. “It’s somewhat less stimulating when you’re eighty-eight, and on the toilet with your pants around your ankles.”
― Bart Yates, The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

“yet if the war had taught me anything, it was that barbarism was universal.”
― Bart Yates, The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl

“This country is terribly cruel to people who don’t fit in neat little boxes.”
― Bart Yates, The Very Long, Very Strange Life of Isaac Dahl