The Final Rule Quotes

“Rudy, please wait.” There were so many more things he needed to say. “And I’ve already heard every one of them and my answer will always be the same. I love you.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“Farm fuel,” Buck said. “They dye it because it’s illegal to use it in vehicles being driven on the road.” He tied down the bike with heavy-duty bungee cords.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“How many times do you think I could choke you out before you finally don’t wake up?” “How many times do you think I can shoot your ass before you die?”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“It takes someone who doesn’t have that grain of darkness inside them. Someone who doesn’t fear love or giving it. Someone who can heal the heart.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“How many times do you think I can shoot your ass before you die?” George stood in the doorway with a shotgun pointed at Jon’s head.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“Terrance coughed. “If you want me to have faith give me a flame thrower.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“That’s the goddamned Marines, boy, not the army.” “What’s the difference?” “The difference?” Anger returned some of the color to his face. “Someone ought’a show you the difference with a foot up your ass.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“Ellis spoke without any idea where the words came from, “Rule number seven: The light cannot exist without the dark.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“Because, little brother, the gift of being loved and loving someone else, makes the pain obsolete.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“I’ve seen death.” Terrance stared out the windshield. “Death is easy. Death is quiet and painless.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“Are you kidding? It’s a tractor. They don’t quit running, the bodies just rust away.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“I am cruelty. I am hate. I am agony. I am the angry man who beats his son. I am the bigot. I am the pain you feel when you bleed. That’s what I am, Jon. And so much more.” The air between them crackled with ozone. “And. I. Have. Infected. Millions.” The Big and Terrible.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“I am the shadows under your bed, the darkness beyond your window, the chill that caresses your spine.” He leaned forward. “And sometimes, Jon, sometimes, I am the voice inside your head. The one that whispers the thoughts you’re too afraid to face.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“It meant ‘I love you.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“So help me, Jon Foster, if you put Ellis through any more shit, I will geld you like one of my colts.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule

“When you are on the edge of death you are no longer a child. You understand things you couldn’t even comprehend as an adult.”
― Adrienne Wilder, The Final Rule