Nobody Move Quotes

“You're not done with L.A. until L.A. is done with you.”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move

“I got this cousin, Lamar,' he said. 'Total fool. And by fool I mean motherfucker wouldn't find water in a swimming pool. But, like all fools, he once spoke a sentence of true wisdom. We'd been talking about this brother, who had a certain . . . fondness for the kind of place you and I find ourselves in right now, and Lamar, in the midst of all his usual ignorant bullshit, said, "You got to be wary of a man who spends all his time watching titties bounce."' Floyd threw his head back and laughed. 'Shit still gets me.”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move

“At last Eddie understood why they called it 'making love.' Until now he'd only been having sex, and, my oh my, what he had been missing.”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move

“If Eddie had ever seen a more beautiful woman, he couldn't remember it.”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move

“They found a large suitcase and just about managed to fit the woman inside in the fetal position. Looking at her cramped in there, still as a doll, Eddie knew he'd crossed a line that could never be uncrossed. Shit, he'd be lucky to ever sleep again.”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move

“This terrible legacy of colonization and genocide and inherited trauma has devalued us even to ourselves, destroyed our communities. Sometimes I think beyond saving . . .”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move

“I know a thing or two 'bout killing and there ain't no way to kill someone by accident. You got to work at killing.”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move

“By the time the guitar solo erupted into being, Dakota had her eyes closed, her hips swaying like the breeze and Eddie lost inside a bubble with her. There was something about her all right, and it wasn't the cocktails telling him that, either.”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move

“Something was off. Everything was off. Eddie could feel it. Felt it ever since he woke up this morning, in fact, that sense of something, everything, being . . . off. Not that anything had been right to begin with. Fucking season was off, that was for sure.”
― Philip Elliott, Nobody Move