Island Quotes

“The great times are often that way. In the middle of everything, you suddenly realize that you’re having a perfect, golden experience. And you realize how few they are. And how this one is bound to end too soon. You know that it will always be a wonderful memory, that the loss of it will give you a soft ache in the heart. This”
― Richard Laymon, Island

“Sometimes, you just can’t do the ‘smart’ thing because it leaves out the heart.”
― Richard Laymon, Island

“I slept. If dreams came, I don’t remember them.”
― Richard Laymon, Island

“He hit the limb underneath him, all right. But it went in between his legs and slammed him in the crotch. The whole limb shook. He sat there for a few seconds, head hanging. In his bright shirt, he looked like a flamboyant cowboy who’d fallen asleep in the saddle. Then he slumped over sideways.”
― Richard Laymon, Island

“For a second, he gazed up at me from down there like some sort of mutant that was half-face, half-ass. Then he tumbled over sideways. I”
― Richard Laymon, Island

“For another, I was on my way up to a dead guy. I’d had about as much experience with dead bodies as I’d had with live gals.”
― Richard Laymon, Island

“That sort of aloneness gives you goosebumps scurrying up your spine. It makes your scalp crawl.”
― Richard Laymon, Island

“returned”
― Richard Laymon, Island