Mr. Mercedes Quotes

I know you’re in there, because hate hangs on and hate is all you had. Could bring you back someday. Sure as taxes and Christmas, though, I’ll be waiting, and I’ll finish it.[to unconscious Brady]

You know, people assume as we age that, you know, this old-f*** wisdom just clicks in. Well, it isn’t like that. F***ing lose track of anything. You want a little piece of old-f*** wisdom? Here it is: everything goes to s***. Write it down.[to Jerome]

You know what they say… You paint your masterpiece, you’ll live forever.

You don’t need to worry, Ma. I’m taking care of us in that basement.

When a man asks a woman out for pancakes, it is rarely about the pancakes.[to Jerome]

What separates man from beast is literature.

We’re all alone. That’s why we have friends. To make the loneliness easier to take.

The why question is always the most complicated.

Big, big tragedies just simply come down to “car access” in the end, it seems.

A person can truly go f*** himself if he puts his mind to it right.

You know when you can smell evil? Well, you can sniff the lack of it sometimes.

You can’t judge the art by the artist.