Over Tumbled Graves Quotes

“Sometimes he would stare at a hand-sized place on her body, the notch above her hip, the curve of her calf, the groove at the back of her neck, and he worried about the loyalty of his hands, daydreamed about their betrayal.”
― Jess Walter, Over Tumbled Graves: A Novel

“Caroline was struck by just how close twenty-four feet really is, how little space really exists between us. Of course they were different, Lenny Ryan’s shooting of the pawnbroker, her own shooting of the wife beater. But that meant there was a difference between what Lenny Ryan did and what Kevin Verloc did, that in the end we are separated not by distance, but degree. And in that truth was another; none of us knows, in the tumble of events, what she is capable of doing.”
― Jess Walter, Over Tumbled Graves: A Novel

“our lives have a way of eddying back on themselves, offering us the same view over and over, daring us to get it right just once.”
― Jess Walter, Over Tumbled Graves: A Novel