The Hanged Man Quotes

“Brand said, fiercely, in a breaking voice, "You're my boy. You can do anything. Anything.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man

“I turned my worry into anger, and my anger into fuel.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man

“Finally, I said, in an almost excited whisper, “I own a dinosaur.” And Brand whispered back, “I own five-story battleship guns.” We reached out at the same time and banged fists.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man

“Brand had ordered Max and Quinn into Quinn’s bedroom. They’d argued they weren’t children. Brand went into the kitchen, grabbed a handful of dry rice, and threw it onto Quinn’s carpet. Then he said that they had to pick up every grain, or he’d beat the shit out of them like the adults they were.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man

“Brand climbed on top of the hood of my car, ignoring my sounds of protest. He clambered to the roof, and shaded his eyes with his fingers to stare at the mansion. I didn’t have to ask what he was looking at. He’d have seen the wall explode from here. “Aren't we planning on living there again?” “The windows were already broken,” I protested. “That’s your room now.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man

“Of course you can train with Brand, I said. “The real moves? Not the fake Companion moves he pretends to teach me?” “Technically, those are still self-defense moves, he just flowers up the terminology to make eye gouging and nut kicking sound pretty.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man

“Brand closed his eyes. He kept his thoughts to himself but, in his brain, I had no doubt he was filing the swear jar like it was a slot machine.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man

“I just hate these self-righteous squiggly red lines. Why not just fix the spelling mistakes?”
― K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man

“was painfully noble, and lived in the world that should be, not the world that actually was.”
― K.D. Edwards, The Hanged Man