Offspring Quotes

“Still she not only knew what the raccoon felt, she finally knew something of what her brother was feeling too and understood his hatred ever after for people who were willing to put you in places like this, places where nothing you do could possibly be right or generous or life giving, and knew she was right never to have mourned her uncle's passing.”
― Jack Ketchum, Offspring

“To be an artist," said Kurosawa, "means never to avert one's eyes.”
― Jack Ketchum, Offspring

“She felt a wild communion with them compounded of blood and hate, not knowing that in part the hatred was for them for the whippings, for First Stolen's use of her, for a life stolen which she could never truly miss but which lingered dimly still somewhere far beyond her waking consciousness-and not caring, because this was life now, this hunger, this blood beating in the veins of the man who held her.”
― Jack Ketchum, Offspring

“The anesthetic was amazing. His eyes flickered down and he could see his own organs beneath the film of welling blood, his lungs, his heart, and below them his diaphragm, stomach, liver.
Yet there was no pain.
He felt only an itch around his collarbone and a strange cold feeling, like drinking crushed ice in a tall summer drink-so cold you could feel it all the way down inside you.”
― Jack Ketchum, Offspring

“What you had in Florida was just heat. Heat that was fine and pleasant about a third of the time, a little uncomfortable about a third of the time, and a third of the time like walking through steam. Like walking through clouds of your own sweat.”
― Jack Ketchum, Offspring

“Up here, if they found them, they were helpless.
People don't look up, she thought.
Melissa was sleeping now, but what if she woke and cried?”
― Jack Ketchum, Offspring