The Bottoms Quotes

“Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms

“Deep down I think I may be just like everyone else. And do you know what, Harry?"
"No sir."
"That bothers me.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms

“For when you can’t live life, you’re just burning life, sucking air and making turds. Perhaps it’s not age, but health that matters. Live long and healthy, it doesn’t matter. But live long and unhealthy, it’s a living hell. And here I lie. Not doing well at all. Only the past seems to matter now; only it seems to be alive; only it can support my soul.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms

“Time is like that. Especially when you’re young. It can fix a lot of things, and what it doesn’t fix, you forget, or at least push back and only bring out at certain times, which is what I did, now and then, late at night, just before sleep claimed me.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms

“All it takes now for us to know all the gory details about some murder is for it to be horrible, or it to be a slow news week, and it’s everywhere, even if it’s some grocery clerk murder in Maine that hasn’t a thing to do with us.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms

“The sun was starting to shine bright by the time we rolled out of the yard, and while Daddy drove and tried to drink his coffee, I ate my buttered biscuit, and for the first time began to feel that I had stepped over the line of being a child, and into being a man.”
― Joe R. Lansdale, The Bottoms