The Homecoming Quotes

“Back at the scene of the rollover they had brought in the dogs, who got one snootful of all the guts and gore scattered all over the place and, after a whispered conference, expressed their regrets and respectfully declined to participate.”
― carsten stroud, The Homecoming

“God made the universe out of nothing, and if you look real close, you can tell.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“Go get us some burgers and coffee. I'll get on the horn to Mark Hopewell. I'll ask him for a list."

"Cheese or plain?"

"I'm on a diet."

"Plain then. And no fries?"

"I said I'm on a diet, not a death march.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“He did not walk in beauty like the night. In fact, he slouched in warthog ugly like a Hangover Monday in Barstow,”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“The Term “a Criminal Lawyer” Is the Opposite of an Oxymoron”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“See that?" said Lemon. "The car tracks turn off there."

"How do you know it's not the parks people on a golf cart thingie?"

"You don't golf, do you, Kate?"

"No, I'm too young to die of boredom.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“His name was Mr. Quan and he was the concierge, which explained the black suit and the lavender shirt but not the oversized bow tie in chrome-yellow silk. Perhaps nothing could.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“He walked around the counter and out into the great room, a large stone-walled space centered around a gigantic flat-screen TV and an entertainment system capable of reaching out into the stars and catching talk shows live from outer space, if outer space had talk shows, which so far it did not.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“Smoles lived alone in this huge house for several reasons, the main one being that no one else wanted to live there with him. He had quite a time keeping staff and his dogs kept running away and he’d tried goldfish but they all ran away too—he could never figure out how, but he’d come home and find the bowls empty and the fish just plain gone.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“Excuse me while I jot that down in my Big Blue Book of Who Gives a Shit?”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“Frankie and Delores had been very happy for many years. And then they met.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“No one was in the car, but now that he was harboring a fugitive he had developed a level of situational awareness that bordered on painful.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming

“A thousand feet above the crash site the flock of crows re-formed, drew into a tight cloud that took on the shape of a scythe as it flew low across the town, wheeling and soaring, filling the cool clear air with their brassy cries, and then it rose up in one coherent mass and disappeared into the east in the direction of Tallulah’s Wall.”
― Carsten Stroud, The Homecoming