Rusty Puppy Quotes

“They were going to shoot us for five hundred dollars," I said. "Wait." I turned to Limp. "Was that apiece?"

"To split," Limp said.

"Really?" I said.

Limp nodded. "We got some raccoons out of an attic for the same price.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Rusty Puppy

“Doctors and nurses saved me from the big, dark plunge, and I didn’t thank Jesus when I came around. I thanked the medical staff, their years of schooling, their tremendous skills. I always figured if I was a doctor and I saved some person’s life, and the first thing they said when they came around was “Thank Jesus,” I would have wanted to stick a pair of forceps up their ass and tell them to see if Jesus could yank those out for them.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Rusty Puppy: Hap and Leonard Book 10

“He got hit by a train about five years ago, and he wasn’t exactly a mental giant before,” Sheerfault said. “Train hit his truck crossing the track, smashed the truck into a wad, and knocked some wires loose in Bobo’s head. Bobo has a simple approach to life, don’t you, Bobo?” “I like to hit people,” Bobo said. “That sums it up,” Sheerfault said. “He likes to hit people. Also, he hears a train whistle up close, he shits his pants.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Rusty Puppy

“What I’d like to do is give you to some kind of clinic for experimentation,” Leonard said. “Something to do with cutting off heads and packing them in ice.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Rusty Puppy

“Inside his head, a brain cell used a stepladder to find a high-shelved thought.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Rusty Puppy

“I'm always ready," Leonard said. "They pulled me out of my mama, I was ready for lunch and a fistfight.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Rusty Puppy

“The projects looked like a place where dreams went to commit suicide and hope got screwed in the ass.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, Rusty Puppy