The Serpent King Quotes
"The worst days spent with her were better than the best days spent without her."
"You better go visit your father or else, you mean."
"It's not meant to be fun. That's why it's prison."
"You owe him. You're the only one with enough free time."
"Free trip to Nashville. You should visit your father."
"I often think about how weird it is that Earth is hurtling through the black vacuum of space."
"Of course I’m not. But I have to pretend. Social contractual obligations and whatnot."
"They have guns now. Gun beats staff in gun-staff-scissors."
"I like it. It makes me feel good to have it."
"The magic staff of kings and lords and wizards and…elves or whatever."
"I love vintage shopping with you, Dill. You have the body of a seventies rock star."
"I thought we’d been best friends since ninth grade, but apparently we’ve never even met."
"The cicadas’ hum throbbed like a heartbeat on an ultrasound."
"We need some clothes-trying-on-montage music—‘Let’s Hear It for the Boy’ or something."
"My needs are met. How are you and your mother?"
"You could set your clock by Lydia’s being twenty minutes late."
"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."
"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."
"Everything about you screams that you want a different life."
"Don't do this halfway. Either go to college, learn something, and change your life, or stay here and be miserable."
"How can I tell you want out? Because you've laughed your head off during every Wes Anderson movie we've ever watched."
"Nothing makes you feel more naked than someone identifying a desire you never knew you possessed."
"I think it's saying that we're all born with seeds in us. And if we let them see sunlight and air, they'll grow through us and break us."
"You are curious and hungry for experience, and it couldn't be more obvious."
"I’m not bugging Travis because he’s fine here. And that’s because he doesn’t actually live in Forrestville, Tennessee. He lives in Bloodfall land."
"My fantasies are more interesting than the real world and machines and tools are more interesting than you guys’ fantasies."
"So what if it’s easy for me to say? Am I not supposed to say important stuff because it’s easy to say?"
"I’m telling someone in a wheelchair to walk who’s in the wheelchair because his dad and mom were in wheelchairs and he thinks he doesn’t deserve to walk."
"You think I’ll let gossipers drive us from our home and fail God’s test? Think again."
"Hope it's that you gave my story to G. M. Pennington's agent and they want to publish it LOL."
"Small bundle's five dollars, big bundle's ten."
"Some fall crawling in the dirt of Forrestville, Tennessee, in the dark, impossibly young and alone, for no good reason at all."
"They killed our friend for one hundred and twenty-three dollars."
"Rest, O Knight, proud in victory, proud in death."
"Everything he loved, all that he was—don't exist anymore somewhere. Why would God make such a universe in someone and then destroy it?"
"The heart wants what the heart wants. When it wants it."
"You can’t live with your heart locked up in a safe."
"You're going to make me cry again. I’ll smear my mascara."
"You are an irredeemable dork. Fortunately for our relationship’s continued viability, you suck at acting like a dumb bro."
"I’ll miss this," Dill said. That was the understatement of the century.
"I hope we’re always a part of each other’s lives, no matter where we go or what we do."
"You’re different than you used to be." "How was I?" "Less prideful."
"We don’t save ourselves," she said with a tinge of scorn. "I didn’t say I didn’t have help."
"I’m afraid of being alone," she whispered, as though she were afraid that normal speaking would bring down some precarious barricade inside her.
"Love deserves monuments, and this is the only kind I know how to build. I’ll keep building them as long as I have strength enough in my mind and hands."