First Boy Quotes

“She looked at him like it physically hurt her not to speak, and yet she stayed silent.”
― Dennis Sharpe, First Boy

“This guy sounds like all the bad guys from the last ten years of murder movies all rolled into one. Like he might be the worst of those books you have there. If he was real, and really like that, then I should arrest him, right?” Matthew asked, hoping he could show the boy that he would protect him, and he could tell him the truth now.

“No, Deputy. Because he is real, and he is really like that, and you should run.”
― Dennis Sharpe, First Boy