The Last Days of Jack Sparks Quotes

“If we devoted as much effort to investigating the dead as we do to building the weapons that make them dead, we’d know a lot more about life after death.” “Dead”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Babies are so consistently insane that it’s hard to tell if they’re possessed, unless they start floating about).”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“My jeans remain unsoiled. My heebies are jeebie-less. There are no willies up me.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Bravado may feel like a shield, but when you're telling yourself lies, it becomes a prison.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Sleep is when the brain processes everything. It’s when we delve deepest into that well.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“The lies we tell ourselves. Comforting justifications, designed to try and fill the holes in us. I”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Let me tell you: Theroux would shit himself.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“There is no “I” in “team”.’ ‘No,’ I reply. ‘But there is a “u” in “cunt”.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Arriving half an hour late at 1.30 p.m., I barrel in looking windswept and interesting.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“None of it is remotely unnerving, scary or—most importantly—convincing. My jeans remain unsoiled. My heebies are jeebie-less. There are no willies up me.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“What do you do? When you’re an atheist, and a mad combat magician tells you to take immediate action to avoid an incoming paranormal entity on a Hong Kong houseboat, what exactly do you do about that?”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“But I, I was scared of wishful thinking, too. It’s like…the fear of hope. Misplaced hope. That’s the worst thing: misplaced hope.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“The videos I do watch embroil me in a world that knows no boundaries when it comes to lame attempts at scaring the viewer. A world that never settles for just the one exclamation mark and knows nothing of the apostrophe’s correct function. A world that owes Mark Snow, the composer of The X-Files theme tune, millions of royalty dollars.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“The noise sounded demonic. It was the natural, or unnatural, soundtrack to Edvard Munch’s Scream.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“When I answer, a piercing electronic shriek crashes out of the speakers. Warped digital feedback: the kind of thing Aphex Twin used to put on his records (Eleanor: I know you’ll ask me to update this reference and make it a more current band. Sorry, but it sounded like Aphex Twin. Not my fault you’re too young to remember him.)”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Thirteen-year-old Maria Corvi arrives on foot, alongside her fifty-something mother Maddelena.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Last time I looked, in about 2009, social media was one big room full of people not listening to each other, shouting, ‘My life’s great!’ I doubt this has changed.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“I don’t think I have a happy place. This possibility makes me ache.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Dead girls in the rear-view mirror may appear more real than they are.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“say, “then”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“video, then serve my time on their nine-day project across two weeks. The Harold”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Truly dreadful sounds ensue. The sounds of human disassembly.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“Bravado may feel like a shield, but when you’re telling yourself lies, it becomes a prison.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“...people's enduring belief in conveniently invisible devils makes the work of science so much harder. It slaps a leash on progress and encourages backward thinking.”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“You can rationalise a baseball bat, but it still drastically changes the shape of your head. Three”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“The irrational fear gene lives on in us all. It’s irritating, but these things need to be handled the same way as when you’ve taken a bad drug. Simply tell yourself how these crazy thoughts and anxieties are just down to the drug, nothing else. Then arm yourself, just in case. Damn”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“makes these thoughts rise from primeval depths. You find yourself fearing what countless ancestors feared before you, ever since the first ambiguous shadow was cast upon a cave mouth’s wall. The”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“They say you don’t directly remember things you see. Instead, you remember a memory of a memory of a memory of a… The”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“I find it fascinating how the supernatural infiltrates your head, even when you reject such concepts. Just as cold germs go about their work, regardless of whether you believe in them. Every”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks

“The eyes, you know, are the windows to the soul. You can see who, or what, is living inside.” “How”
― Jason Arnopp, The Last Days of Jack Sparks