How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
"This town is still alive and you're running out on it."
"It ain't alive," Parkins said, lighting his smoke with a wooden kitchen match. "That's why he came here. It's dead like him. Has been for twenty years or more. Whole country's goin' the same way." (14.1088)
Parkins, unlike Matt, doesn't like the Lot at all. He figures it's better off in the hands of vampires, or that it was really vampiric to begin with. Barlow couldn't have done so well if the town weren't already his to begin with, Parkins figures.