Night Drop Quotes

“How can people behave like that?” She had not asked the same question of the beating. Like many people, she’d assumed if the police beat you up you’d done something to deserve it.”
― Marshall Thornton, Night Drop

“I think it’s a great idea,” Marc said. “Next year I’ll give up work for Lent and then never go back.”
― Marshall Thornton, Night Drop

“So then Wally starts to tell me that my son will get the right sort of religious instruction from the Trailblazers, that they’ll make a man out of him, and that they have these retreats with the officers once a month.” “Well, that all sounds kind of pervy,” Leon said.”
― Marshall Thornton, Night Drop

“I’m on break. Would you like to give me a blow job?” “Oh, um, well, thank you for offering. But, no.”
― Marshall Thornton, Night Drop

“As I walked out of the apartment, I heard Guy’s mother—who’d been silent the whole time—say, “Doug? When are we going home? I hate this city. It’s nothing but niggers and fags.”
― Marshall Thornton, Night Drop