Bonfire Quotes

“The problem is that people think in black and white. They think they can have the good without the bad. But everything that's good for one person is probably bad for someone else. Life isn't like the Bible says it is. It isn't a choice between good and evil. It's about choosing which evils you can stand.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Some of us are out of place even when we are home.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Memories are like fire, and need only a little oxygen to grow.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“When did other people's happiness start feeling like assault? But the answer comes quickly, and brings a bad taste to my mouth. Always. I didn't ever stop feeling excluded. I just started to wear it and pretend it was my choice. Maybe that's why I was drawn to the law of poisoned things, and hurt people, and scabby chemical earth. Maybe toxic is the only thing I really understand.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“I always want the things that hurt most.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Heaven is for redeemed sinners, he said, after hours of silence. Dogs don’t need it. They live their whole lives in heaven.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“The past is a trick of the mind. It’s a story we misunderstand over and over.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Law school teaches you one thing above all: how to speak while saying absolutely nothing.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“I'm sorry," I say, without knowing exactly what I'm sorry for. For your daughter, for her job, for that sophomore behind the Dumpsters, men who get to do anything they want, and the people who are taken advantage of. Because isn't that, ultimately, what the case comes down to? There are people of the world who squeeze and the ones who suffocate.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Your problem, Abby, isn't that you can't draw. It's that you can't see.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“In town, he wore his religion like armor, and somehow that kept him untouchable. At home, he wielded it like a weapon.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“I know now that there's a hole inside me. A hole that can't be patched or filled with files or paperwork or legal cases or new clothes or miles or happy hours or bartenders. This was never about the water. It's not even about Kaycee, not really. It's about me.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Nothing was ever her fault. She was immune to guilt, and her memory worked like one of those old gold sifting pans, shaking away all the dirt, all the bad stuff, leaving intact only the things she really wanted to remember, the things that made her look good.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“The past is just a story we tell.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Barrens has it's roots in me. If I want it gone forever, I'll have to cut them out myself.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Things dead and buried are best left that way. They don't look none too pretty when they come up.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“You know the problem, Abby, isn't that you can't draw, she said, out of nowhere. It's that you can't see.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Crows have amazing memories. They can distinguish between human faces, too. They're like elephants. They never forget.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Joe refuses to sleep in one of Barrens’s few motels or rentals, claiming that a gay black man belongs in Barrens, Indiana, like a dildo belongs on a dinner table.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“My phone’s dead, and I have to find the microwave to read the time: 8:12. Only bad news comes this early.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“The particular odor of artificial air freshener, musty old travel guides, and baked goods is like the barrel of a gun, shooting me into the past.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire

“Any self-help book in the world will tell you that you can’t just run your past away.”
― Krysten Ritter, Bonfire