The Hanging Tree Quotes

“I’m 27.  I must only be mildly retarded.  Or maybe it’s gone into remission.”
― David Andrew Wright, The Hanging Tree: A Post Apocalyptic Thriller

“Kids his age learn things like this faster than adults.  But give him a couple of years and he’ll be dumber than he ever was.  All full of hormones and puberty.  Everyone over twelve and under twenty-two is mentally retarded. ”
― David Andrew Wright, The Hanging Tree: A Post Apocalyptic Thriller

“The ghouls keep us inside but the ghosts live inside us.”
― David Andrew Wright, The Hanging Tree: A Post Apocalyptic Thriller

“I feel like I want to throw up.  But then it passes.  It always does.  The little switch inside flips and all of the heavy feelings, all the misery, drains away into nothing.  Same thing when I start to feel too happy or good.  The drain in the back of my head collects everything that runs over a certain frequency.”
― David Andrew Wright, The Hanging Tree: A Post Apocalyptic Thriller

“It’s easier when you are older.  Life has beaten you up a lot more and you’re better able to take it.  It’s too hard when you’re a kid.  You don’t have the scars to protect you.  You just have wounds that haven’t healed yet.  You’re still too honest, still too trusting.  Still too hopeful. ”
― David Andrew Wright, The Hanging Tree: A Post Apocalyptic Thriller