Dove Season Quotes

“Even a desert hare will take a finger off the dumbass that tries to pet it. If the desert can make a bunny that angry, imagine what it does to the people.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“Anything can be a curse if it ain't a choice. If it's all you know. If you do it because your father did it. And you do it because it's familiar and safe and you're afraid to do something else. Even if all you want to do is anything else.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“A large part of our relationship was centered on our attempts to make each other laugh. I couldn’t think of a stronger foundation for a friendship. I suppose some people would find it superficial, but they’re just not funny enough to understand.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“In the city people bitched when you asked them to help you move. Out here a neighbor would help you shovel shit for eight hours without batting an eye and still pick up the tab when you went to dinner.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“Anything can be a curse if it ain’t a choice.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“There is something about the desert that pisses everything off.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“Boredom brings out the bingo in every old fart.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“All my favorite actresses are porn stars. And the ones that ain't, I wish they did porn. And that includes Dame Judi Dench.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“If I followed the sounds of the shotgun, I would find a group of drunk-by-noon ’necks sitting in folding chairs on a ditch bank in hundred-degree heat shooting at the bird of peace. The kind of thing that makes frog gigging look majestic.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“The door was one of the few doors that was actually made out of door.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“He told me that the lowest points in my life would be the times when I lost my sense of humor. He had told me that if I could keep my sense of humor, I could survive anything.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“Whoever orders chicken cordon bleu at Chonchy Joe’s Gasoline and Beef Jerky Emporium is asking for the intestinal challenge that they will soon face.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“I knew they were in the country illegally, but that didn’t make them criminals.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“Someone told me she was shot five times. I don’t remember hearing no shots. But with all these fucking hunters around, who could tell. Shit, maybe it was a accident. My brother once shot me twice on accident. Least he said it was a accident.”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season

“The “Christian” thing to do would have been to let him suffer”
― Johnny Shaw, Dove Season