Jack Ketchum quotes:

In the basement, with Ruth, I began to learn that anger, hate, fear and loneliness are all one button awaiting the touch of just a single finger to set them blazing toward destruction.

pain can work form the outside in.

Black coffee's a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin's. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

As though all the world were a bad joke and she was the only one around who knew the punchline.