Half the Blood of Brooklyn Quotes

“Like I was ever normal. Like I was ever any different from how I am now. A cure won't make me better. It'll just make me more like a regular son of a bitch. Like the Vyrus makes you into something else. It doesn't. If you get it, if you survive, it's because you were already the kind of person who will drink blood.”
― Charlie Huston, Half the Blood of Brooklyn

“What's inside is inside for a reason.
What's hidden is hidden for a reason.
What's buried is buried for a reason.”
― Charlie Huston, Half the Blood of Brooklyn

“Think about a night like that often enough, you'll ask yourself a lot of questions. Most of them about yourself. The kind of person you are. What you'll do and why and when you'll do it. What you believe in. What you really believe in.”
― Charlie Huston, Half the Blood of Brooklyn

“That’s what happens when you get a regular job, other people’s shit becomes your problem. ’Course, by the time you got that figured, it’s up around your ears and you’re just trying to keep your fucking mouth shut.”
― Charlie Huston, Half the Blood of Brooklyn

“I size him up. A pasty jumble of limbs in latex-tight sharkskin slacks with three inches of white socks showing at the ankles above two-tone patent leather, a jacket matching the slacks stretched over narrow shoulders and an embroidered cowboy shirt with silver caps on the points of the collar, a bolo tie featuring a cockroach frozen in amber snug around his throat.”
― Charlie Huston, Half the Blood of Brooklyn