Where They Wait Quotes

“Good decisions often mark the death of wild dreams.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“If you spend enough time on black ice, does an illusion of control return?”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“The best navigator in the world couldn’t guarantee you open water. It was one thing to chart a course and another to know it was clear.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“Grackles are disliked by many people, often viewed as a nuisance, and yet they are extraordinary creatures,”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“It is, I believe, the very nature of man. As surely as Christ turned water into wine, so can men turn power into poison. This they shall continue to do until He has seen enough, I’m afraid. Some days, I hope that He has already seen enough. Then I pray for forgiveness for such dark thoughts.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“We stood like that for a while. Renee pressed her face into my chest and I held her even though she’d gone very still. There was nothing romantic to the moment, and yet there was something deeply intimate to it. A simple but profound need for shared warmth.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“This piece-of-shit asshole was gone from my life and yet still had a hold on it. Because you can remove the man but not the memories. I was sleeping with a knife next to the bed when I slept at all. To get that far, I was taking more Ambien than was healthy. I’d wake up groggy and sick and have to fight through my mornings, then come home and do it all over again. The asshole still had control over me, even though he was gone. I couldn’t stand that thought. And people were advocating therapy, you know, conventional approaches, but what I wanted was for him to be gone. As if he’d never existed.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“The scream I would have uttered then would have been unlike any sound I’d ever made before, if only I could have made it.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“I slept as if it were an act against my own will, slept as if paralyzed, slept as if held down by strong hands. At some point, I realized dimly that the lamp was off and that I didn’t remember turning it off. My eyes would flutter open and the shadowed room would present itself and then my eyes would close again. None of it felt like a product of my own intention or effort.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“today’s news is forgotten tomorrow, but folklore is forever.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“Home is always more about the people than the place.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait

“Rest in peace, Tom Petty.”
― Scott Carson, Where They Wait