Goblin Quotes

“I promise to warn you of sadness, Molly said.
To keep you from
finding comfort in its arms. And though I can’t ward off all evil
things, I can tell you when they are near and I can help you fight
them. I promise to be there when you need someone whether you
know it or not. I promise to sustain this feeling we feel now forever.
I promise you will never be alone. Since that day at the grocery
store, neither of us will ever truly be alone. I will not promise to
love you because that is something I just do. I love you.
Wayne cleared his throat.
“I
I promise to protect you, Wayne said.
I promise to respect you. I
promise to celebrate you. But I do not say until death do us partbecause I expect we’ll meet thereafter. And I do not promise to love
you…because that is something I just do. I love you.”
― Josh Malerman, Goblin

“what did money mean to a person who was robbed of her life in her sleep?”
― Josh Malerman, Goblin

“That a man built this maze and that I’m as clever as any man, big or small.”
― Josh Malerman, Goblin

“Farraline’s face was wrapped around a lantern set on a tree stump.”
― Josh Malerman, Goblin

“How can there be nothing?" he said, shaking his head. "Nothing doesn't make noise! Nothing doesn't wake you up! You know what does that?" he looked down the length of his booby-trapped rooms. "Something!”
― Josh Malerman, Goblin

“One night at closing time in his second week at his second week on the job, a possible explanation popped up, unasked for.

They know I’m not where I am supposed to be. Up here- he tapped his head – I’m caged too.”
― Josh Malerman, Goblin

“They told me that freedom is doing something you would never ordinarily do. Freedom is leaving the person you're used to being behind. Real freedom is doing something so dreadful that you have no choice but to turn your back on yourself. Do you understand?”
― Josh Malerman, Goblin

“She told me that the greatest symbol of true love is self sacrifice. That our love could be legendary. Bigger than Van Gogh's.”
― Josh Malerman, Goblin: A Novel in Six Novellas