Southern Gothic Children's Book Quotes

“Gainesville, FL was soft on teen shoplifters in the 90s. The police were rarely involved. But you got banned from the store. This divided friend groups. Some had to wait outside. They would be beside every record store. Caught with a Sonic Youth CD down their shirt. Waiting. I'd join them. Not because I was banned. I just liked flirting with the Bad Girls.”
― Damon Thomas, Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

“When I was a kid I had an illustrated "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" book. A yard sale non-Disney version that was already vintage. The dwarfs had no names but got along well. All sharing the same bedroom. Sleeping in a row of beds with their feet out from the covers. Because of this I started sleeping with my feet uncovered as well. And now as an adult it is still the same. Feet out even as it gets cold. We are what we read.”
― Damon Thomas, Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

“The quaint side of rural Southern narrative ignores that you'll grow old there and be killing rattlesnakes with your crutches.”
― Damon Thomas, Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

“They poured cream in my eye. Sweet oil in my ears.
Put wet tobacco on a bee sting. I didn't see the doctor
much as a kid.”
― Damon Thomas, Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

“We are born. And begin to remember. An aunt throws
up out a car window. A cigarette burns my foot. A
dying relative screams from a back bedroom. These
are my first memories. The things my brain decided I
should never forget.”
― Damon Thomas, Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel

“I got presents as a kid. That stopped in my teens. The
small family gifts were gone. Replaced by dark humor
– "I got you the same thing as last year. But purple.”
― Damon Thomas, Southern Gothic Children's Book: A Rural Gloom Graphic Novel