Dead Boy Quotes

“Cody couldn’t bring himself to actually look directly at the main building.
Where it happened.
He’d gone through that front gate every school day for years. Knew every nook and cranny, every single classroom, every broom closet and every air duct intimately. Every crack in the tarmac, every water fountain, each and every bank of lockers and all the boys’ bathrooms. But he couldn’t look directly at the familiar brick building. He observed it the way you do an eclipse, out of the corner of a half-lidded eye.”
― Casey Wells, Dead Boy

“Downy woodpecker.” “Northern mockingbird.” “Orchard oriole.” “Prairie warbler.” “Gyrfalcon.”“You’re making these up,” she said, poking him with her elbow. “No, I swear I’m not.” “Then birds are the best-named animals in the entire universe.”
― Casey Wells, Dead Boy