Thrown Quotes

“The way to that armbar was some twenty movements tried and countered, twenty deceptions tendered until one stuck and Jared relaxed into the elaborate trap set for him. “Like chess” is the dull analogy of the unimaginative, but more like snake-charming, the job being one of drawing out, wooing a body from its tight clenched coil into a single yielding line.”
― Kerry Howley, Thrown

“Know that the reaching tendrils of the analytical mind, even as they wrap themselves round a million problematical abstractions, leave a universe of calamity untouched.”
― Kerry Howley, Thrown

“This moment lasts for days. We can only open our mouths in a united wordless moan. We are each of us simple tools of perception, free of the clouding intellect, allowed a thinking of the body only accessible when men like Erik can, for a single solitary second, lead us outside ourselves. He has torn a small hole in consciousness. It is already closing.”
― Kerry Howley, Thrown

“He followed the game plan to a T,” added coach Duke Roufus. “The plan was to kick him in the head.”
― Kerry Howley, Thrown