Bone White Quotes

“The shallow forests toward the west glowed with an almost preternatural haze, and the highway blacktop shimmered beneath a slick cocktail of rainwater and motor oil.”
― Ronald Malfi, Bone White

“And I'm just a man who has lost part of himself. I'm one-half of a set. The rest of me is gone, gone.”
― Ronald Malfi, Bone White

“...a smell that combined all the worst characteristics of rotting vegetation, unwashed flesh, and dog shit left to cook in the sun.”
― Ronald Malfi, Bone White

“Your Manipura. It was Erin Sharma's voice whispering in his head. It grants you the power to save or destroy the world. For the first time in his life, Paul Gallo realized that those things are sometimes one and the same. You were right, Erin. Only thing is, you were right about the wrong brother.”
― Ronald Malfi, Bone White

“Listen, Gallo, I’m gonna level with you. Folks out here are superstitious. Look around you. Our winters are black, and in the summer it’s just one long stretch of perpetual daylight. People around here don’t have much. They drink and they hunt and they sit around telling ghost stories.”
― Ronald Malfi, Bone White

“You didn’t arrive in Dread’s Hand, he realized, but rather Dread’s Hand came at you piecemeal, a bit of itself at a time, like someone reluctant to make your acquaintance.”
― Ronald Malfi, Bone White

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” —William Shakespeare”
― Ronald Malfi, Bone White

“When she asked where the sniffer dogs were, McHale had told her the handlers had to take them back to town because they kept getting spooked by something in the woods. A bear, probably, McHale opined.”
― Ronald Malfi, Bone White