Where the Dead Sit Talking Quotes

“People live and die. People kill themselves or they get killed. The rest of us live on, burdened by what is inescapable.”
― Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking

“This is mostly how I remember her: pure in Indian blood, lovely, dressed in the late day sky. How well she knew this. And I was a young boy staring at her.”
― Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking

“I sat alone in the courtroom. It was freezing in there. I looked at the judge's bench and the witness stand and at the chairs where the jury members sat. I looked at the tall ceiling and the woodwork around the room. I wasn't sure what I felt in the courtroom, but it was no longer sadness, and it wasn't sympathy for my mother.
"I'm sorry," Liz said on the drive back.
"I'm fine," I said.”
― Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking

“At school, some of the guys in my grade played Dungeons & Dragons, a fantasy role-playing game, and soon everyone was talking about their characters at school as if they were real people. We wanted to exist in other worlds. We wanted to lose our own sense of reality, to be other people with other lives. Lives unlike anyone else's.”
― Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking

“We were like branches intertwined from the same tree, the same root, reaching out toward the sky to the unknown.”
― Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking

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― Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking

“Listen to all the noise here, the yelling, lockers slamming, loud bells, odd echoes in the halls. The kids are feckless. I need a quiet place, somewhere absent of noise and people. I need a quiet room, a work space without sound. I need to sit in quiet and not think about anything.” The second teacher said, “Did you say feckless?” “Yes.” “A good solid word.” “Thanks. Are you up for a game of Scrabble? We have twenty minutes left.”
― Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking