Jordan Krall > Quotes

“My interior was a wreck, a car crash, a plane crash, a family tragedy, financial misfortune. My body was sitting tight but my soul was not.”
― Jordan Krall, The False Magic Kingdom Cycle

“...[H]e thought he could still smell Bonnie's ass though he knew it was probably just the aroma of hotdogs and gyros in the air.”
― Jordan Krall, Squid Pulp Blues

“Television provides me with life outside of my thoughts. But maybe I just like the noise. It produces sounds I don’t have to take part in, voices I don’t have to respond to. It is a way of being a part of society without actually taking part in society.”
― Jordan Krall, The False Magic Kingdom Cycle

“NEVER FORGOT YOU ARE INVITED TO SUPREME TRUTH PARTY! HAPPY HA HA! Thoughts”
― Jordan Krall, The False Magic Kingdom Cycle

“If there is a God, he (she?) is most likely deranged and sadistic.”
― Jordan Krall, The False Magic Kingdom Cycle

“Pastor Timothy spit onto a woman's face, a woman he suspected of being a homosexual and, even worse, a democrat. (...) Pastor Timothy was cut short by a snow shovel to the face wielded by an elderly drag queen.

"This town's fucking weird, man.”
― Jordan Krall, Squid Pulp Blues

“This God’s thoughts consist mainly of rape and murder. This mentally-retarded hunchback of the heavens gets particular pleasure out of seeing young children abused and exploited. Then this hunchback’s heavenly drool falls from the sky in the form of hurricanes and dandruff in the form of disease. This is the deity I imagine when people talk of God. The”
― Jordan Krall, The False Magic Kingdom Cycle

“A victim is a victim is a victim and a hole is a hole is a hole.”
― Jordan Krall, The False Magic Kingdom Cycle

“At the core of the city, the fungal magnificence of the building enthralls all who circle it. Automobiles and buses slow to let their occupants gasp or faint in ultraconscious worship of the monolithic tomb of the metropolis. Meditative pedestrians stalk the black mossy glass while idly sipping their coffee and cursing the banality of their lives. Their knees weaken; they fight the urge to fall to the sidewalk in supplication for to acquiesce so easily is a terrible transgression. They stare into the glass and attempt to see into the foyer. They yearn to see the workers. It is an important time.”
― Jordan Krall, False Magic Kingdom

“MAN: Everyone is partially responsible for the deaths. WALTER:”
― Jordan Krall, The False Magic Kingdom Cycle

“They all think: What did I do to deserve this? Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. That’s the point.”
― Jordan Krall, Humanity Is The Devil