Gone to See the River Man Quotes

“There’s only two places anyone can find peace—the woods and the grave.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“The people we make suffer stay inside of us longer and more deeply than those who we bring joy, don’t you think?”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Will it hurt, darling?” she asked. Edmund flicked the blade with his finger. “Love always does.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“All the world is guilty. It's just a matter of degree.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“River Man ain’t wantin’ nobody’s soul. What he wants is for your soul to be as bad as his. Ya get what ya want without havin’ to do anythin’ for him, but somehow he just brings out the worst in ya. Ya go rotten in your heart after dealin’ with The River Man.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Lori had learned that over the years. A woman rarely gets what she needs, let alone what she wants.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“But their new kinship was as real as their old cruelties. All the world is guilty. It’s just a matter of degree.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“The people we make suffer stay inside of us longer and more deeply than those who we bring joy, don’t you think? They are our personal crosses to bear.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Her interest in true crime books and documentaries was a hobby turned obsession. It was her one escape from the dullness of her own reality, the emptiness of everyday life that suffocated women far stronger than she was. And personal closeness to such human atrocities brought excitement like a pulsing, electrical charge, a feeling she’d grown addicted to. In conversations with those who took life, Lori no longer felt dead inside. Killers, of all people, made her feel alive.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Love grew just enough to have an impactful death.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“But I’m old enough now to know there are some things nobody can ever really unnerstand. Folks believe in God. They believe in the Devil. Why not The River Man? Somethin’s gotta make people wanna kill each other. Somethin’s gotta make a soul go bad enough to make somebody rape n’ murder. Ya can call it whatever ya wanna, but ’round here it’s always been him, always The River Man.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Every note he plays is a drop of blood from someone’s heart.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“That’s what he wants, she realized. The pain of others. Our suffering. Our heartache and regrets. Our grief and fear. All so his music can be unflinching and true, raw as road-rash flesh.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Ah, your trophy," he said. "The trophy you took from your victim."
Abby shook her head. "It's for good luck."
"Aren't they always?”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“people we make suffer stay inside of us longer and more deeply than those who we bring joy, don’t you think?”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“That didn't matter, though. Her thoughts toward her were entirely justified. They'd always been there, but were suppressed by a guilt she'd now began to think she never should have felt in the first place.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“That’s what The River Man do. He ain’t gotta ask ya to do nothin’ evil. He just bring out the evil that’s already in ya.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“In conversations with those who took life, Lori no longer felt dead inside. Killers, of all people, made her feel alive.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“The shame cloud had never given way to the sunshine of self-forgiveness. So what was one more layer of smoke?”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Violence was his love letter. Death was all his soul.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“That’s what he wants, she realized. The pain of others. Our suffering. Our heartache and regrets. Our grief and fear. All so his music can be unflinching and true, raw as road-rash flesh. Every note he plays is a drop of blood from someone’s heart.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Truth is pain—sharp and deep and merciless. Only love can ease the suffering, for love is the sharing of those truths.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“River Man ain’t wantin’ nobody’s soul. What he wants is for your soul to be as bad as his. Ya get what ya want without havin’ to do anythin’ for him, but somehow he just brings out the worst in ya. Ya go rotten in your heart after dealin’ with The River Man. That’s”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“The Hollow River existed in its own unnerving universe, and The River Man was the sun at its center.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“You’re so used to life being one big shit that’s impossible to flush. Can’t”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Buzz fell silent, eyes going distant as he watched the water ahead. It opened in curtains that flowed without end, leaving a trail behind them, a fading memory of a journey just begun.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“The smell was like that of cooking beef except foul, as if sulfur and feces had been thrown into the mix.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man