Hush Quotes

“Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Music is art, and art is an integral part of the human experience.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“She hadn’t known she was a cat person”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Humans are morbidly curious as long as it has nothing to do with them.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Here’s a little-known fact: People who are getting close to snapping sometimes start wearing the color yellow. The brighter the color, the closer they are to snapping. Lastly,”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“The girl—Kiki was her name—had just turned six and would grow up to be a whore like the rest of them. But she was almost a niece to him, and he’d sent her a birthday card with the picture of a puppy on it.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“the truth was, people had to have something to dream about, to hold as sacred, even if it was something they would never accomplish.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Right then and there, when she looked into his sweet little face, into those sweet, unfocused eyes, she was lost, feeling a love so powerful it scared her. And she thought she could endure all the curses in the world for him.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“When you’re young, you keep thinking things are going to change, things are going to get better. But by the time you hit forty, you pretty much know this is it.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Because she’d come to find out that no matter how good a person’s intentions, it was impossible to forge deep relationships when you harbored secrets that could never be told.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Because that’s the way it was with many serial killers. They blended. They moved among the masses, changing color to match their background. Ivy”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“In the South,” he said, “they call everything a Coke. So if you say you want a Coke, you then have to specify if you want a Pepsi Coke, or a Coke Coke.” “What”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“People who are getting close to snapping sometimes start wearing the color yellow. The brighter the color, the closer they are to snapping.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Her good fortune, while not exactly making her shallow, had given her an insulated view from a window she didn’t care to move past.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“On her sixteenth birthday, she bought a lottery ticket and won half a million dollars. But later the money was taken away because she hadn’t been old enough to buy a ticket in the first place. Strange”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“The noise. The chaos. Had it always been this bad? Cars honking, sirens blaring, the shriek of bus brakes, and the smell of diesel when the huge vehicle pulled away from the curb? Construction, wood-planked walkways, jackhammers. How did people stand it? How did they think? Function? The”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“after you watch someone die of cancer, you’re forever changed. Your view of humanity, of what it means to be a human on this planet Earth, is forever questioned and never answered.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“When people raised families in that sterile environment, it produced directionless children who became directionless teenagers, then directionless adults. With no roots, no past to stand on, you got hollow kids. The United States was full of rootless, empty kids who played video games all day. In between, they skateboarded down immaculate sidewalks past yards that had never known a weed. And if you looked into their eyes, you didn’t see a dream of the future there, just a weird emptiness. Max didn’t know what the answer was; all he knew was that somewhere along the line, they’d all taken a wrong turn. Max”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“When you’re young, you keep thinking things are going to change, things are going to get better. But by the time you hit forty, you pretty much know this is it. When”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Ten years ago, it was speculated that there were fifty serial killers working in the United States at any given time.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“People were stupid. They smelled, and they were stupid. The”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Galaxy 500′s cover of Yoko Ono’s Listen, the Snow Is Falling, or Spiritualized’s Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, The Chambermaids Down in the Berries,”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“She thought about her future. For sixteen years, she’d lived for one thing and one thing only, and now her life seemed superfluous. What would she do? Take care of Jinx. And every day she would go over questions that had haunted man since the beginning of time. What am I doing here? Who am I? What’s my purpose? Those”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Socrates said the perfect society would be based on a great lie. People would be told that lie from the cradle, and they would believe it, because human beings need to make order out of chaos. Ivy”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“He expected too much from people, that was the problem, Ethan thought. He expected too much from life. In a way, he wished he could be like Ryan, so easy to please, satisfied to sit in front of the TV all day, killing imaginary people and sometimes getting killed himself. Lyrics from a Kurt Cobain song played in his head, the ones about wishing he could be easily amused like everybody else. After”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“How easy it was to disturb someone with just a few words, words that didn’t fit the protocol. Humans came with a manual, a set of rules, a code that saturated every waking moment of their pitiful lives. But if you stepped outside that code, it threw people off because there was nothing in the manual about seriously fucking with somebody’s head.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“He put his coffee cup aside and got to his feet. She thought he was leaving when he pulled her into his arms and held her close. Just held her, held her, held her.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“And if he had lived, he would have been tall and strong, weak and wise. He would have needed me, and he would have pushed me away.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush

“Max knew Ethan didn’t want to be seen crying, and Max wanted to respect his privacy, but he couldn’t let the evening end like this, not without telling his son one final thing, the unabashed, unvarnished truth. “I adopted you because Cecilia begged me to,” Max said from the doorway. “But sometimes fortune falls on those who least expect it. I’m one of those people. You brought something into my life that had been lacking. You are my son. I love you more than I can ever say. And I can’t begin to comprehend how empty my life would be without you in it.”
― Anne Frasier, Hush