Gwendy's Magic Feather Quotes

“Is she thinking these thoughts or listening to them? It’s suddenly hard to tell.”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“The question that had bloomed in her mind while sitting on the bench that long ago summer day resurfaced—and rather rudely—earlier this morning as Gwendy was busy cushioning the button box in her carry-on bag with rolled up wads of socks and sweaters: How much of her life is her own doing, and how much the doing of the box with its treats and buttons?”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“But what if what she believes to be true...simply isn't?”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“The Big Fire in ’91, boogeyman Frank Dodd murdering those folks, Sheriff Bannerman and those other men getting killed by that rabid Saint Bernard, hell, even the Suicide Stairs. You believe it was an earthquake that knocked them down, I got a bridge to sell you.”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“I’m old and fussy and don’t much care for most of humanity,”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“Almost half an ounce of pure silver. Created by Mr. George Morgan, who was just thirty years old when he engraved the likeness of Anna Willess Williams, a Philadelphia matron, to go on what you’d”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“most of the men wearing the standard autumn uniform of an adult New England male—camouflage”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“George Morgan, who was just thirty years old when he engraved the likeness of Anna Willess Williams, a Philadelphia matron, to go on what you’d”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“President with the IQ of a turnip and the temperament of a schoolyard bully”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“She still can’t believe Clinton lost to this idiot. “The President of the United States is a flipping moron,” she”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“The Weapon.” In it, a scientist involved in creating a super-bomb opens his door to a late-night stranger who pleads with him to stop what he’s doing. The scientist has a son who is, as we’d now say, “mentally challenged.” After the scientist sends his visitor away, he sees his son playing with a loaded revolver. The final line of the story is, “Only a madman would give a loaded gun to an idiot.”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather

“It was just a strong...feeling.He gave off this seriously creepy vibe, a kind of hunger, you could feel it wafting off him.”
― Richard Chizmar, Gwendy's Magic Feather