The Long and Faraway Gone Quotes

“That’s the problem with the world,” he said. “You save it today, and tomorrow it’s gone and gotten itself into trouble all over again. It’s like a Kardashian.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“The past had power. The past was a riptide. That's why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn't go in the water.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“The sun dropped beneath the horizon and then detonated, torching the racks of clouds stacked up above the downtown skyline. Wyatt had forgotten how quickly, in the vast empty sky of the southern plains, the ordinary could turn so flamboyant.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“Sometimes the best lie was just the truth left to ripen on the branch too long.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“Sometimes the near seemed far, far away and the faraway was right beneath your feet.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“Was memory like a river that slowed over time to a trickle? Or was it like a house with many rooms that became a house with fewer rooms and then finally just a single room you could never leave? Was that the worst fate in the world? It depended, Wyatt supposed, on what room you ended up in.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“To do a grid search afterward and make sure nothing that could be flipped had not been flipped. Unless there had been more than one somebody. But even then. “Seems like an awful lot of effort,” Wyatt said. “For a bunch of kids. When I was kid, Officer, and maybe your experience was the same, effort was the least of all possible temptations.” “I’ll tell you what I think.” The cop turned back to them. “Get you a security system. Or a big old dog.” “Ms. Kilkenny told you about the other incidents?” Wyatt said. “Yes, of course I told him,” Candace said. “And stop calling me that.” “She did,” the cop said. “About the birds and such.” He kept a straight face, but the way people do when they want to make clear they’re keeping a straight face. Wyatt could feel Candace vibrating next to him at a frequency that was about to blow out the glass in the Art Deco skylight above them. Wyatt didn’t think the cop was dumb. The cop, like everyone, was just keeping a finger on the pulse of his own self-interest.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“...girl reached across her desk and pulled the computer keyboard over. “What’s his name?” she said. “Crowley,” Julianna said, surprised. “Christopher Wayne Crowley.” “I shouldn’t do this.” The girl looked back up at Genevieve and laughed. “But fuck it, right?” Genevieve's disappearance from the state fair had been news for about a day. Okay, maybe for a couple of weeks. She was beautiful—the Daily Oklahoman ran her picture with every story, a photo of her from the previous year’s U. S. Grant High School yearbook. Genevieve had thought the photo...”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“Do you know what Filipino sailors do for the pleasure of their female sexual partners? They’re called bolitas. They make incisions in their penis and insert tiny metal ball bearings.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“It was like he was standing in the desert, dispassionately watching the flash of a distant explosion, waiting for the shock wave to trundle across the flats and reach him, to sweep him off his feet and carry him away.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“the secret to a successful relationship. One of the secrets. In love as in life, you had to be present.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“The past had power. The past was a riptide. That’s why, if you had a brain in your head, you didn’t go in the water.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“What?” a man’s voice said. Strunk & White: Omit needless words.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“He didn't understand why he was so fucked up. He was the one who had survived.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“When faced with two evils, choose the more interesting one.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“Those who were sticklers for rules had to submit when the rules stickled them back. He”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“The past was a riptide. That's why,if you had a brain in your head, you didn't go in the water.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone

“Julianna wondered about that for a moment, how a relationship could be so broken that not even a daughter’s cancer couldn’t mend it.”
― Lou Berney, The Long and Faraway Gone