Rushed Quotes

“Now I think I’m back in Wisconsin.  I see cows.” “Sounds like Wisconsin.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“and just happened to be looking out the window as he hurried out the door, they’d have no reason to suspect that he was behaving strangely.  Perhaps he’d lost something, his wallet, maybe, and was checking to see if he’d left it in his vehicle.  Still, he hesitated to lock the car for fear that the brief sounding of the horn would alert every nosy neighbor on the block”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“I’ve realized there’s a thread of order in the universe, a thread that connects us all, and one that’s way too intricate to be there by accident.  We’re not alone.  And I really don’t think you’re here just to die.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“Eric laughed. “I’m still excited.” The little man smiled more broadly than ever.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“rushing back to him in an instant, and with it came that awful feeling of gut-wrenching fear and foreboding with which he’d awakened each night.  Though he could still remember no other details about the dream, not even the reason why this barn filled him with irrational dread,”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“I could see it in your eyes.  It takes a certain kind of person.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“He certainly had far more colorful language than any “father” he’d ever known.  Even his actual father had never strung together the kind of imaginative description that Father Billy used next.  Not even when he hit his thumb with a hammer.  And that was always good for encouraging creativity in vulgarity.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“Now, he could do without the horror movie that was stubbornly playing in his mind, adding to his overwhelming fear.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“Eric had to admit that her ability to read his feelings was dead-accurate.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“He was a reasonable enough man to know that this was utter nonsense.  Even if someone was up and wandering around in their unlit home at this hour and just happened to be looking out the window as he hurried out the door, they’d have no reason to suspect that he was behaving strangely.  Perhaps he’d lost something, his wallet, maybe, and was”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“He was a reasonable enough man to know that this was utter nonsense.  Even if someone was up and wandering around in their unlit home at this hour and just happened to be looking out the window as he hurried out the door, they’d have”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“He turned around and surveyed the corn. The shadows seemed deeper somehow, the shade beneath the broad leaves darker, colder, more sinister. That was ridiculous.  Corn could not look more sinister.  Broccoli, maybe.  But corn was just corn.  It was tasty.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“Eric pulled the phone from the front pocket”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“and gazed around at the darkened windows of his neighbors”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“He was confused, of course, and a little unnerved.  After all, he wasn’t exactly known for being impulsive.  It wasn’t like him to do anything without a reasonable amount of thought, much less jump up in the middle of the night and go running out to his car, inexplicably convinced that he desperately needed to be somewhere.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“unnerved.  After all, he wasn’t exactly known for being”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“watching him, wondering where he thought he was going at a quarter past one in the morning, laughing at”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“Eric replied by showing him both his middle fingers and suggesting that it should copulate with itself. ”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“I think it’s the same reason you’re the person who had the dream and not some Olympic athlete or super-genius.” “Thanks, Isabelle.  You’re right.  I have to believe I’m not just here to die.” “Don’t forget it.  Not even if it”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“aging gracefully.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“Anyway, I was talking about the cold spots.  Those’re the places where you’re inside the fissure.” “Fissure?” “Yeah.  Like a crack between worlds.” “Worlds?  What, like a wormhole?”  Again, he thought of aliens and extra-terrestrial spacecraft.  “No.  You’re thinking of planets.  I said worlds.  Dimensions, if you prefer.” “Like parallel realities?” “Sort of.  Yeah.  There’s our world, the one we know, and then there’s this other one.  Scary-ass place, apparently.  I think it’s where those things in the barn came from.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“No number was displayed on the screen.  Neither was there an “UNKNOWN NUMBER” or “TOLL FREE CALL” or any of those other messages that always really meant “WE’RE NOT TELLING YOU WHO WE ARE BECAUSE WE KNOW YOU WON’T ANSWER IF WE DO.”  (Stupid survey takers and telemarketers.)  The screen simply remained as it looked when no one was calling.  Yet the phone continued to vibrate in his hand.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“On-Time Dream Eric was a lucky son of a bitch.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“We’re all entitled to our opinions.  Even us fools.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“It had poured out of that wardrobe like a spring-loaded snake from a novelty peanut brittle can,”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“Fairly certain that Narnia was not where it intended to take him,”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“something about a bird.  And yet this dream filled him with such a profound sense of urgency and foreboding that he immediately left his bed, dressed himself and fled his home in the middle of the night.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“Sure.  Go left and into the creepy cemetery.  That’s what he got for listening to a stupid phone.  Now what was he supposed to do?”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“That was ridiculous.  Corn could not look more sinister.  Broccoli, maybe.  But corn was just corn.  It was tasty.”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed

“He remembered lifting the lid… And then he remembered his death. ”
― Brian Harmon, Rushed