Sour Candy Quotes

“Sour candy trumps chocolate.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“A line from a book he’d read in highschool popped into his mind: The nameless are easier to bury.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton's teeth fell out.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“Because despite the torture he’d been put through, the pain and loss he did not believe he had done anything to deserve, he had tried to be a decent person, tried to stay within the confines of morality. And all it had gotten him was more suffering.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“That’s right. Tomorrow’s the day I try to kill you.” “Goodnight Daddy.” “Goodnight, son.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“Surely even the monsters would respect another animal’s need to defend itself.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“There was something terribly wrong with the child, and simply by crossing paths with him, Phil had caught his attention. He felt trapped in a bizarre otherworld in which everything was crooked, but the harder he fought to extricate himself, the more tangled he became. So, in the absence of better options, he stopped struggling.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“It was a Saturday, so he was off work and had woken up pleasurably late after a night of equally pleasurable lovemaking.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“It couldn’t be a coincidence that the candy had been named after a brood parasite known for laying its eggs in the nests of other birds.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“She hangs around with this emo kid who fancies himself a poet or some shit.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“In a situation in which every rational person is telling you a fact and you’re the one who denies it, doesn’t that make you the one most likely wrong?”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“The sound costs him part of his mind. It’s the cost of being allowed to see as the symbols catch fire and blind him.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“tough-titty-said-the-kitty,”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“Four months to the day he first encountered the boy at Walmart, the last of Phil Pendleton’s teeth fell out.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“All he will ever retain from however long he spends in that other place—and it’s an eternity—will be fragments of horrors, so garish and alien it is impossible for his mind to put them together into any kind of sense or order, but they will be enough to compound the seriousness of the situation in which he has found himself.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“The pictures on the walls would show his family and friends and Lori and no towheaded Amish-clad spawn of Satan, and”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“At first, there was nothing.
At second, there was everything.
And too late he realized that what he had put into his mouth was not candy at all, but a key.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy

“People tend to distance themselves from the insane, as if to inquire is to request an invitation to the same dance.”
― Kealan Patrick Burke, Sour Candy