“ Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst. Joe Hill
“ Why is there evil in the world? Because sometimes you just wanna fuckin have it, and you don’t care who gets hurt. Joe Hill
“ For a time he read his Neil Diamond bible by the firelight. He paused, twisting nervously at his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of… Joe Hill
“ Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingne… Joe Hill
“ ... people made the imaginary real all the time: taking the music they heard in their head and recording it, seeing a house in their imagination and building it. Fantasy was always only a reality wait… Joe Hill
“ The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. “Dracula” and “The Fly” may delight and appall in eq… Joe Hill
“ Vic didn't have a car and probably spent a hundred and sixty hours a week at home. The house smelled of piss-soaked diapers and engine parts, and the sink was always full.In retrospect Vic was only su… Joe Hill
“ Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life. Joe Hill
“ In this world, family is the final, most elemental unit of power. A small group, helplessly bound together by blood with a shared set of skills and tools for consolidating power and subjugating others… Joe Hill
“ He had no doubt that Merrin had called out to God here in this place while she was been raped and killed, in her heart if not with her voice. God's reply had been that due to the high volume of calls… Joe Hill
“ It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness. Joe Hill
“ All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together. Joe Hill
“ I liked AC/DC," Lee said. "If you were going to shoot someone, you'd really want to do it while you were listening to them.""What about the Beatles? Did you feel like shooting anyone listening to them… Joe Hill
“ Whatever your sexual orientation, whatever your ethnicity, whatever your age or personal experience, it is my hope you will find a hero somewhere here you can relate to, that speaks to the world as yo… Joe Hill
“ [Lou]: “I’m not talking about the angioplasty. I mean the stuff you’re pumping into me. What is it? Something serious?”[Nurse]: “Oh. This is nothing. You’re not going under the knife today, so you don… Joe Hill
“ Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, th… Joe Hill
