The Scattered and the Dead Quotes

“It all started in Florida. Of course. Fucking Florida.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“How could he let consciousness go? It was all he knew, all he’d ever known. The idea of pulling a trigger and vanquishing it? Of shutting off his brain? Of black nothing forever”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“She got that urge she used to get as a kid — like she knew there was nothing there, it was just her imagination, but she better run up the last few stairs as fast as she could, just in case.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“In so many ways he’d lived like he would live forever. He’d taken his time for granted on one hand and simultaneously not fully indulged, not fully embraced his passions on the other. It was the worst of both worlds.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“She felt the pull of sleep urging her to close her eyes. It reminded her of standing on the beach when she was a kid, and how the waves would lap over her feet. As the water retreated, the sand around her toes drained away with it, and the magnetic draw of the tide tugged at her feet.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“Dudley Do-Right-ing must get exhausting, right?”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“There were no words for the weight these memories piled on his shoulders and chest, no words to capture the sense of great fortune and misfortune he felt all at once, a mix of the best and worst luck—the best in knowing her at all, the worst in having her torn away”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“a montage of images playing in his head with the saturation turned way up so the colors were brighter than real life.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“Greasy burgers and fries washed down with Coke -- a fitting end, perhaps, to a life where he never really tried. Never tried to accomplish anything great, anything meaningful to even him, let alone anyone else. It was a fast food life, lived for convenience, lived without regard for much beyond finding comfort, shoving empty calories into his face to try to feel better about the emptiness all around. And”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“But deep down she knew, the meek did not inherit. The meek got eaten by the monsters, until eventually there were only monsters left.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“It was a simpler time. There were less apocalypses going on.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead

“Maybe it was a waste of time, or maybe it was a final real meal with his boys. Like being on death row. Greasy burgers and fries washed down with Coke -- a fitting end, perhaps, to a life where he never really tried.”
― Tim McBain, The Scattered and the Dead