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“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“I'm beginning to believe that anything I do to extend my life is just going to be outweighed by the agony of living it.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“It's hard to live a good life...It seems like the Devil don't ever let up.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“When you first heard him talking about it, you'd figure he was batshit crazy, but really, he was just trying to fill up his days so he didn't have to think about what a fucking mess he had made of everything. It's the same for most of us; forgetting our lives might be the best we'll ever do.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“They's a lot of no-good sonofabitches out there."
Arvin asks, "More than a hundred?"
Willard laughed a little and put the truck in gear. "Yeah, at least that many.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“The way she saw it, too much religion could be as bad as too little, maybe even worse; but moderation was just not in her husband’s nature.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“He imagined the door to a sad, empty room closing with a faint click, never to be opened again, and that calmed him a little.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“I don't know,' Del said. 'I read this book. I guess you could say we were looking for a better life.'
'Did you find it?' the Fish Stick Girl asked.
'No, it was just a goddamn book. I ain't read one since.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“Look, girls don't care how many push-ups you can do. They just want to get high and wear flowers in their hair. Maybe steal a car.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“. . . if even half of history was true, then the only thing this depraved and corrupt world was good for was preparing you for the next.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“The Oxys filled holes in me I hadn't realized were empty. It was, at least for those first few months, a wonderful way to be disabled. I felt blessed.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“Because of who we were, I already knew what we would do.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“It wore on you after a while, other people's accomplishments.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“A damp, gray sky covered southern Ohio like the skin of a corpse.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“The glass door swung open and two big, homely women walked in looking guilty. They were the kind of women who, out of sheer loneliness, end up doing kinky stuff with candy bars and wake up with apple fritters in their hair.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“Let me pray first," he sobbed. He started to put his hands together.

"I already did it for you," Arvin said. "Put in one of them special requests you fuckers are always talking about, asked Him to send you straight to hell.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“Strangers complained about the stench, but the locals liked to brag that it was the sweet smell of money.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“Sometimes it seemed as if she spent half of her life crying.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“Six months ago, her old doctor at the Henry J. Hamilton Rehabilitation Centee had put her back on all her medications after somebody disguised in a paper bag had tried to strangle her in front of the Tobacco Friendly. Though she described the sack perfectly, even drew a picture of it down at the station, the cops never found a single suspect.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“Some people were born just so they could be buried; his mother was like that, and he’d always”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“He had never met anyone who played music for a living who wasn’t fucked-up in some sad or depraved way, the same as those who painted pictures or wrote books or traipsed about spouting lines on a stage from the latest melodrama. In his opinion, only the truly miserable were really any good at artistic endeavors of any kind.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table

“You can't be a pussy all your life Todd. Someday you're just gonna have to say fuck it.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“What I'm saying is that when it comes right down to it, everybody suffers in the end.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“He raised his eyes and searched out a small patch of blue sky visible through the dense, green branches of the pines. A white wisp of cloud drifted by. That's what dying will be like, he told himself. Just floating up in the air. Nothing bad about that. He smiled a little.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“Pressed into the gray scum of the tub, our boot prints looked like those fossil feet frozen in rocks that my crazy cousins said the Devil had planted all over the world to trick people into believing that we came from frog shit and monkeys.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“Something broke in him that day. For the first time, he could see that his whole life added up to absolutely nothing.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time

“It was just what my old man always claimed about my mother after she took off- "If she had all of 'em stickin' out of her that's been stuck in her, she'd look like a fuckin' porcupine.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff

“Jimmy's eyes would turn as red and sticky as candy, and his head would fall back against the seat in a dream. If he were lucky tonight, maybe he would see something that he hadn't seen before. And then it would be my turn.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, Knockemstiff