Desolation Run Quotes

“what I do know is, when you fight yourself, no matter who wins, you lose.”
― James Snyder, Desolation Run

“The mountains above them came more and more into view. They were black misshapen heaves of the earth’s volcanic crust forced skyward, jutting and cracked and forbidding. They seemed lifeless as a moonscape, though seemingly filled with a dark living wonder that made them seem they would start to breathe at any moment. They offered no welcome, even as they seemed luring and magnetic in their presence. As if they held secrets beyond care or revelation, though beckoning and unforgettable. Bewitchment filled the cold desert air.”
― James Snyder, Desolation Run

“I ain’t forgot. Anyway, my problem’s never been the forgetting, but the remembering.”
― James Snyder, Desolation Run

“Isaiah 45:7.” Now he was made to swallow, thinking back. “‘I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.”
― James Snyder, Desolation Run

“I ain’t afraid of dying. Shit I’ve been through, dying is just one more page in a long bad book.”
― James Snyder, Desolation Run

“Wild animals, she had seen, used that power to survive. They didn’t know bad or good; they just knew starving made you weak, which was the same thing as dying, sooner or later. But menfolk were different, and that was the terrible burden they carried. She decided it was just plain easier to do and be bad than good, so those weak-souled and evil-tempered leaned toward that, while the better menfolk, like Doc, leaned the other”
― James Snyder, Desolation Run

“Narrow slippery trails crisscrossed it from every direction, all leading down to Junior Creek, which flushed the bottoms on down into the Tombigbee River,”
― James Snyder, Desolation Run

“backgrounds, shadowy rock and tree, and chasing him up and down soot-gray hills and dales for all he was”
― James Snyder, Desolation Run