"Joyland" Quotes
A college student takes a job at an amusement park and becomes involved in a murder mystery.
horror | 283 pages | Published in 2013
Quotes
When you're twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It's only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you've been looking at the map upside down, and not until you're forty are you entirely sure. By the time you're sixty, take it from me, you're fucking lost.
I mean, you know, there are guys who could be stand-up comics who are very funny, but they don’t have it in them to write a funny sitcom. It’s a different kind of humor. It’s a different kind of figuring out what’s funny.
I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high odds.
The pain made him feel like he was dying all over again, and maybe he was.
You can't hold hands with a ghost.
When the woman you love is dead, it's hard to gather the will to stay that way.
The moon will always be a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
