Three Graves Full Quotes

“They say God gives us no more than we can handle. That is either an horrendous lie or the loosest possible definition of the word handle.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“No disaster can stay shiny and new forever. No worry has ever been invented that the mind cannot bully down into mere background noise.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“Then Jason felt a brief statistical curiosity over how many people died annually because they couldn’t move when they should. He couldn’t think as far away as his feet, and they weren’t going anywhere on their own. It seemed that the internal conflict should have screamed in his head like a sold-out theater on fire, but in practice it felt stupidly bovine, like shoveling in more dull food when you were already full.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“Evolution had brought us out of the trees, then culture had neutered the beast, but even a eunuch can get angry.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full

“The forest grows ferns and trees; it cultivates mushrooms and spores; it fosters its creatures from nothingness to more of the mulchy same. And for Jason, the seeds of backbone, of entitlement, were nurtured in the fertile hollow that had dropped the bottom out of civilized advancement. The forest insisted. It pushed back. At some sudden swell of that’s-enough, it emphatically refused to be overrun by bullying machinery and someone else’s idea of what it should be.”
― Jamie Mason, Three Graves Full