The Twilight Pariah Quotes

“No one gives a shit if you write a book or not.”
― Jeffrey Ford, The Twilight Pariah

“It’s every man for himself,” he said, and went back to reading. After my mother had died and he’d been laid off from his machinist job over in Milton, he’d retreated into near silence and the print reality of other worlds. Connection was tough for him and only getting tougher as he aged. Maggie asked me once if the reason I wanted to become a writer was to somehow make contact with him.”
― Jeffrey Ford, The Twilight Pariah

“I thought of a line from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, “As idle as a painted ship / Upon a painted ocean.”
― Jeffrey Ford, The Twilight Pariah

“Hanging out with you is like an extra job.”
― Jeffrey Ford, The Twilight Pariah

“As we followed him down a hall to a back bedroom, he told us that he owned the house. “Unfortunately, it’s not haunted,” he said.”
― Jeffrey Ford, The Twilight Pariah