Narrow Rooms Quotes

“For imagine having somebody beside you day and night loving you and forgiving you and petting you forever and ever, that must be a better description of hell than being put into a boiling lake or cauldron of ice that burnt your black.”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

“I don’t think of people as queer or straight,” the Doc said. “Not when you’re as old as I. And I don’t think God does either.”
“I didn’t know you believed in God, Doc,” Vance said.”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

“You fucked-up hunk.”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

“Don’t you believe in death?” I yelled at him. “No,” he answers, “and I don’t believe in time either...”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

“Not all princes he had read about in books of legends are beautiful and noble and carry their heads high.”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

“I have wrote my name in hell,” Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

“My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but where we won’t need guns or prey but we will just walk together arm in arm in this good world and be by ourselves always together forever and a day.”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

“Don’t shoot me, Sidney, I love you.”
He had shot him right through the words that still haunted him today, the most perfect words ever said to him.”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

“Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton of a child which superstition says keeps the bridge standing.”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms

“Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.”
― James Purdy, Narrow Rooms