Quotes from Off Season

Jack Ketchum ·  308 pages

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“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.”
― Jack Ketchum, quote from Off Season


“Fighting for your life is a fucking ball. As long as you didn’t get slaughtered.”
― Jack Ketchum, quote from Off Season


“Friendship and sex were really all she wanted from men these days.”
― Jack Ketchum, quote from Off Season


“She had always given too much of her life over to relationships, and they’d never quite worked out. Now she was simplifying her life in favor of her career. It gave her a sense of control to watch herself succeeding, and a great deal of satisfaction.”
― Jack Ketchum, quote from Off Season


“To her eyes, used to diversity, there was a troubling uniformity about them all, something that spoke of isolation, and a dull and thoughtless cruelty.”
― Jack Ketchum, quote from Off Season



“It was strange how, when there was nothing else in your life, sex was everything.”
― Jack Ketchum, quote from Off Season


About the author

Jack Ketchum
Born place: in The United States
Born date November 10, 1946
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