The Laughing Dead Quotes

“Am I walking away from something I should be running from?”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“Being raised with a Laura Ingalls Wilder lifestyle under a Charles Manson leadership did not garner one a lot of party invitations.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“I’d found that repeating someone’s words back to them was often the shortest route to showing them they were an idiot.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“Talking about Lulu must cut at her, it had to. Grief like that never expired, it only lay in wait. Judging how or when it would show up was a fool’s game.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“He stared at his computer screen a few more beats than was polite, in case I’d forgotten he was a dick.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“when did a victim stop being a victim and start being responsible for what they allowed to happen to others? It was a trick question. They were always a victim, and they were always—once they became an adult—responsible for the harm they permitted.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“hadn’t expected revelations today, though I’d been open to them.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“The most terrible things happened on cloudless days.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“Most folks either punched up or punched down after experiencing horror, nothing in between. With their whole world rearranged, a middle-ground walk through life was no longer an option.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“He swore he’d track her down no matter where she went, track her down and kill her and their daughter. She believed him. And so she began to do what trapped and traumatized women have done since time immemorial: She rebuilt the story of who he was, explaining away the bad and shining up the good.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“The media often tied domestic violence to poverty, giving the impression that the two went together like peanut butter and chocolate. That was misleading. The poor might have more day-to-day struggles, but in my experience, those with money were more dysfunctional. The rich had the resources to hide their shortcomings better, was all.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead

“If humans could harness the power of boxer wiggles, we’d be well on our way to solving the energy crisis.”
― Jess Lourey, The Laughing Dead