Smoke Quotes

“It is disturbing what money will buy you, Charlie thinks, discretion and resentment both paid for with the same coin.”
― Dan Vyleta, Smoke

“For what after all is Smoke? Yearning. Courage. Anger. The type of fear that coils itself into a fist. Defiance. Triumph. Hope. It’s the animal part of us that will not serve.”
― Dan Vyleta, Smoke

“It’s a choreography of sorts: some birds, her mother once told her, dance before they mate.”
― Dan Vyleta, Smoke

“He cannot spit, it seems, without her presence being written in the bile.”
― Dan Vyleta, Smoke

“...the blue-black mark that crawls out of the crater of his wound and insinuates itself onto his cheek.”
― Dan Vyleta, Smoke

“But hi stomach is a knot. No, not his stomach. His entrails, from colon to diaphragm. A knot. It will take hours to unpick.”
― Dan Vyleta, Smoke

“...a light passes the door. It slides through the crack like an inverted shadow, licks a yard of floorboard, and is gone.”
― Dan Vyleta, Smoke

“The dog appears to be sleeping, dreaming; sweeps its tail across the floor in jerky crescents...”
― Dan Vyleta, Smoke

“For a minute and more after this announcement, Thomas goes deaf. It's a funny sort of deaf: his ears work just fine but the words he hears do not reach his brain, not in the normal manner where they are sifted for significance and given a place in the hierarchy of meaning. Now they just accumulate.”
― Dan Vyleta, Smoke