The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others Quotes

“Sounds like a talented boy," I told her, but knew I was talking to myself. Still, it made me curious, as it always did, to know who it was that had ownership of such a prized lot in her brain that not even her strokes could turn it fallow, or salt the earth of recollection. Whoever it was, whether real or fantasy, living or dead, they would not truly die until she did. And for that, I envied them.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

“... shivers that settled in his belly and stayed there like moths in a jar.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

“He loved autumn; the way the leaves turned a panoply of colours before the trees let them go; the earthy aroma the breeze ferried across the fields; the crackle of frost, the clean taste in the air, the way the street looked after the rain had come and gone.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

“Arnold sat on his porch, watching the sun die a phoenix death, bruising the clouds as it struggled to stay afloat in the evening sky.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

“I dug deep into the pockets of my overcoats and grabbed fistfuls of patience as I watched them queue for the opportunity to be sorry.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others

“Overbearing parents was one thing; waking up to a drunk uncle mistaking you for the toilet was another.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, The Number 121 to Pennsylvania & Others