Growing Things and Other Stories Quotes

“As one of my favorite foul-mouthed lit professors used to say, “Man, that’s some fucked-up shit right there.”
― Paul Tremblay, Growing Things And Other Stories

“That’s the true power of story. That it can find the secrets both writer and reader didn’t know they had within themselves.”
― Paul Tremblay, Growing Things And Other Stories

“As distasteful and unpopular as it is, the children will die horribly. There are no Hansels and Gretels here. Most of the children will die wondering how this could be happening to them. Some will remain convinced this should not be happening to them, thinking it's like Mr. Butler was saying before, There must be some kind of mistake. The ones who will be eaten last suffer terribly, having had to watch their classmates eaten before them. Their suffering will be no fair trade, please do not think that, yet these final children will be the precious few who come to understand what the monster is and what it means.

Perhaps if we were to actually tell the real monster story and fully confront all the tragedies mentioned above, we might glimpse an awful and beautiful and most elusive wisdom: of how to love and live with each other and with the terrible knowledge of the unknowable, uncaring, and undiscriminating monster.”
― Paul Tremblay, Growing Things and Other Stories

“And, to be honest, my social anxiety was one of the reasons why I had decided to stop frequenting conventions and readings, with finances being another reason, and yet another, the notion that I could prevent the inexorable untethering from Dominick if I remained geographically fixed within the Hudson Valley at all times, like an old stone fence in a forgotten stretch of woods.”
― Paul Tremblay, Growing Things And Other Stories

“You are as purposefully deaf as you are blind and have been so for so long that no one remembers it being any different.”
― Paul Tremblay, Growing Things And Other Stories

“Were any other body parts missing? “No.” Isn’t it odd that animals didn’t take anything else? “Who knows why animals do anything they do?”
― Paul Tremblay, Growing Things And Other Stories

“She’s doesn’t knock her temples over purposefully and is careful as she builds them taller and more complex. They collapse anyway.”
― Paul Tremblay, Growing Things And Other Stories

“Him and his early gray hair.”
― Paul Tremblay, Growing Things And Other Stories

“We ask about each other’s day as if it were an actual object, something that could be held and presented.”
― Paul Tremblay, Growing Things And Other Stories