The Corruption of Hollis Brown Quotes

“Have they seen your face, lit by moonlight, terrible and grinning? Seen you laugh to harmonize with screams? Felt what it is to be small and in your hands?”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“Do you like our house? Is there a garden for your roses? Do you want to paint my fences white?”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“Maybe if you weren't such a bitch, people would punch you less," James muttered.
"Exactly!" Hollis cried. "I get punched way too often for that to even be considered a viable motive for anything.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“Together together together, like a promise.
Walt’s wrists, Hollis’s hands, their neck, their feet. They twisted together beneath their skin like a pit of snakes, delirious. They pressed their
forehead against the tile and breathed hard so they could focus on the feel of it.
The rightness of what they should be. Full to bursting and complete.
Greedy.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“I'm wicked enough for prayer?”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“I had no one and I am no one and I should be dead and I'm too much a coward to even do that right,”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“He was just another kid out in the snow. Desperate.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“They lived in a forgotten American dreamscape. A silver cut from time.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“How familiar was Walt with this? Did his other "rides" tell him? How being possessed didn't feel like being puppeteered from above, or remote-controlled.
That it felt like having someone stand behind you while showing you how to play pool or golf or wheel-throw clay.
Their heat at you back.
Their breath on your neck.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“Walt burst into tears. Sobbed into the darkness inside them.

“I was looking for you this whole time, I think,” Hollis whispered, out loud so the words were real.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“I’m scared.

It’s okay to be scared. Do you want this?

I can’t.

I didn’t ask if you could, I asked if you did.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“And you’ll tell me if you’re not happy? God, please tell me, if years down the line you decide you don’t want me.

I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you, and if you want, I’ll even take you back home. I’ll walk you all the way there, from the hollow to Rose Town and I’ll walk you to your door and I’ll kiss you the way we kiss before you go. Even if we hate each other by then, I’ll still do it.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“Christ.”

You say the Lord’s name in vain a lot for someone religious.

Your bad behavior is inspirational.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“A boy versus the relentless march of gravity.
Grand and terrible.
Like Holst's Jupiter.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“You're not supposed to want to die. You have everything. Everything, Hollis. I'm the worst thing that's ever happened to you.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“You're just a house I'm haunting. You're a house, Hollis.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“A liability is only halfway there. I was full-time trouble, sweetheart.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“Hollis smirked. He liked Walt. He was weird and kind of unnerving, but he was always funny.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“The thing about being friends with only girls was that they held him accountable for his actions. He got scolded and berated and pushed to be better”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“Hollis, sweetheart. There ain't nothin' here for me but you.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“Do you like it?
Of course, I like it—
Do you like our house? Hollis clarified.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown

“Aw, baby, for you? I'll stick around," he murmured.”
― K. Ancrum, The Corruption of Hollis Brown