Frank Bill > Quotes

“We got no jobs, no money, no power, no nothin', nothin' to live for 'cept vice and indulgence. That's how they control us. But it's falling apart. What we got is our land and our machines, our families and our ability to protect it all, to keep them alive. We got our hands. Ones who'll survive will be the ones can live from the land. Can wield a gun. Those folks'll fight for what little they've got. They'll surprise the criminals with their own savagery. Man, woman, and child will be tested. Others'll be too weak and scared. Uneducated in common sense. Won't know what's happened. But believe me, war is coming.”
― Frank Bill, Donnybrook

“Rusted ringer washers. Gas stoves. Dry rotted tires and busted television sets decorated the flat rock hollows. The country yards of rusted trailers and broken-down farmhouses with abandoned red clay tractors. Vehicles on cinder blocks. It was the poor man's fairy tale of rural survival.”
― Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

“Everything a man survives in life is a lesson. Some lessons are taken, others are given.”
― Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

“Stanley questions Dr. Towell’s ability, asking questions like this. He’s in his doctor’s office. He is the doctor.”
― Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

“They's evil in people that make little if any sense, and trying to figure them out does a person little to no good.”
― Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

“Signing in at the front desk, Stanley explains that he’s not bipolar or any other type of transgender.”
― Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

“Some dicks is crooked, others is straight, but they can all be used for fucking.”
― Frank Bill, Donnybrook

“The woman's body bounced from wall to wall like a winning pinball. There were no electronic harmonies for high score. Just her thick pleas of sorry with no pity in reply. Just savagery.”
― Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

“Then, in the waiting area, seated next to him, an old raisin of a female says her sphincter muscle has been rebuilt three times. Looking at her he says, “Your asshole has been rebuilt three times?”
― Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories

“They’s evils in people that make little if any sense, and trying to figure them out does a person little to no good.”
― Frank Bill, Crimes in Southern Indiana: Stories