Tales from the Gas Station Quotes

“Dearly beliked, we are gathered here tonight to pay our first and final respects to these gentle creatures. Oh, closet mice, I’m sorry you all died in a box in the back of the supply room, but I’m
grateful that at least you didn’t have to die alone. We pray that you don’t haunt this gas station. Instead may you find your peace in Heaven or whatever your mouse-religion equivalent is."
"Valhalla." I muttered.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“You were sleep floating.” “Oh,” Rosa said. “Sorry about that. I really didn’t mean to.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“This was the conversation equivalent of the moment a zipper gets jammed on nothing.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“I allowed my thoughts to drift, and somewhere along the way they took a wrong step. Without realizing it, I’d fallen into my own head. Now I was tumbling down a rabbit hole of existential distress.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“I was destined to be forgotten. But in the grand scheme, aren’t we all? In a cosmic time scale, what’s the difference between being mourned for a minute or an eon?”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“The great thing about language is that it can capture abstractions otherwise beyond the limits of understanding.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Did you know that watermelons are technically berries?”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Have you ever thought about carrying a gun?” “Not really. I’m clumsy and prone to dropping things and I don’t want to accidentally kill someone. Same reasons I don’t like holding babies.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Rosa looked at us nervously and offered some parting words of support. “Be careful. I’d hate for this night to turn into a… what’s the opposite of a sausage fest?” Jerry answered, “A clamboree.” “Right. I’d hate for this to turn into a clamboree.” That felt like a good”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Jerry may have had a chance to make a run for it out the back door, but he never even took his shot. He just walked into the mass of them and quipped, “You guys must be here for the micro-penis support group. Sorry, today’s meeting got cancelled due to insufficient staff.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“what’s the opposite of a sausage fest?” Jerry answered, “A clamboree.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Aw man fuck you!” he screamed. “Fuck your whole face!”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Each year, winter took up residence in my bones like a bad roommate, and no matter how many pots of coffee I drank, it never seemed to be enough to keep my insides warm.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Yes. Was that exactly what I was planning to do? Also, yes.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“What did you do to piss off the redneck godfather?”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Are you not the one they call..." (He legitimately tried to pronounce the name ‘Jack,’ and got pretty close.)”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“You guys must be here for the micro-penis support group. Sorry, today’s meeting got cancelled due to insufficient staff.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“flipped it around”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“She started pulling unloading the box onto the counter in front of me.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“five-foot-twelve,”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“boney”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“instalment”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“I did not, but I can believe it.” “Well you shouldn’t! It’s not true.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“me”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“I could hear other voices coming from the nothing, joining hers in a trickle at first, and growing into a storm. Soon, a chorus of hundreds were speaking in unison from her mouth, combined into a singular voice no louder than her own.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“the two of them found the power to fall asleep, almost like they were showing off.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two

“Clearly, Mother Nature was drunk.”
― Jack Townsend, Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Two