Crank Quotes

“Love was like notches on a speaker that could be cranked up and down, the decibels of desire, the frequencies of feeling. Sometimes she thought that she might have cranked it all the way up and broken the dial before the music had even started.”

“Thomas remembered the image of the Cranks at the windows back at the dorm. Like living nightmares, missing only a death certificate to make them official zombies.”

“My arm began moving, turning the invisible crank of Death's music box. Somewhere inside, I didn't want the melody to end.”

“Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.”

“I was cranked to a fifth gear, and everything I did, I did on a deadline.”

“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”

“Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.”

“. . . the humblest, and at the same time most balanced and capacious, praised most, while the crank, misfits and malcontents praised least.”

“... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.”