Black Mouth Quotes

“You’ve got a boner, don’t you?” she said. Clay laughed and I told her I absolutely did not, even though I did.”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“Maybe no houses are born bad, either. Maybe they’re just convenient receptacles for everything we put in them—a box that houses our dreams, hopes, fears, torments, happiness, laughter, grief. They’re what we make of them and what we need them to be.”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“We cannot run from ourselves. There is a history that travels through our blood, a blueprint for the people we are to become.”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“A house like a blood clot: something snared in the artery of space and time.”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“And your hole is so big I could see it from the street,” Sunshine Devil Girl said. “Like, from the far end of the alley, even.”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“What’s your name?” “Sunshine,” said the woman. “Sunshine Devil Girl.” “What is that, Polish?”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“A voice in my ear, whispering straight through to the epicenter of my soul: Do you want to see a magic trick?”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“it arrived in the way monsters sometimes do: as a creature in need.”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“Events in our lives often have meaning because we choose to give them meaning.”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“Events in our lives often have meaning because we choose to give them meaning. Whatever the case, it arrived in the way monsters sometimes do: as a creature in need.”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth

“Mia didn't stop. She'd been making low budget horror movies the majority of her adult life and one criticism of the genre she loved was that once you incapacitate the bad guy, you didn't run, you didn't relent, you didn't crawl to the nearest phone and dial 911. No motherfucker. What you did was you finished the fucking job.”
― Ronald Malfi, Black Mouth