Kristopher Triana > Quotes

“There’s only two places anyone can find peace—the woods and the grave.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“The people we make suffer stay inside of us longer and more deeply than those who we bring joy, don’t you think?”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Sabotaging people romantically might seem timid compared to crushing their skulls with toilet tank lids, but hurting people is an art, and I enjoyed it in all its many forms.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“Will it hurt, darling?” she asked. Edmund flicked the blade with his finger. “Love always does.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“All the world is guilty. It's just a matter of degree.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“People speak sometimes about the ‘bestial’ cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts; no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“On the ride over I listened to my favorite driving soundtrack—the dead static at the end of the AM spectrum, turned all the way up.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“Then we’d be hauled off to the eight-hour prison of high school, the mind-manipulating monotony machine where one’s personality goes to be trampled to death.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“The people we make suffer stay inside of us longer and more deeply than those who we bring joy, don’t you think? They are our personal crosses to bear.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Her interest in true crime books and documentaries was a hobby turned obsession. It was her one escape from the dullness of her own reality, the emptiness of everyday life that suffocated women far stronger than she was. And personal closeness to such human atrocities brought excitement like a pulsing, electrical charge, a feeling she’d grown addicted to. In conversations with those who took life, Lori no longer felt dead inside. Killers, of all people, made her feel alive.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“River Man ain’t wantin’ nobody’s soul. What he wants is for your soul to be as bad as his. Ya get what ya want without havin’ to do anythin’ for him, but somehow he just brings out the worst in ya. Ya go rotten in your heart after dealin’ with The River Man.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Ah, your trophy," he said. "The trophy you took from your victim."
Abby shook her head. "It's for good luck."
"Aren't they always?”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“Lori had learned that over the years. A woman rarely gets what she needs, let alone what she wants.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“But their new kinship was as real as their old cruelties. All the world is guilty. It’s just a matter of degree.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“There was only the vicious surge that comes with the absolute power over another human being.”
― Kristopher Triana, Body Art

“People keep others from jumping off the ledge because they don’t want to have to scoop brains off their front porch.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“It was important to me for my best friend to succumb to grief, misery and failure. The last thing I wanted was for her to die happy.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“That’s what he wants, she realized. The pain of others. Our suffering. Our heartache and regrets. Our grief and fear. All so his music can be unflinching and true, raw as road-rash flesh.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“I swear,” Keith said, tapping his beer with his fingernails. “Those two bitches were almost as sick as he was.” “Almost.”
― Kristopher Triana, Along the River of Flesh

“Love grew just enough to have an impactful death.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“But I’m old enough now to know there are some things nobody can ever really unnerstand. Folks believe in God. They believe in the Devil. Why not The River Man? Somethin’s gotta make people wanna kill each other. Somethin’s gotta make a soul go bad enough to make somebody rape n’ murder. Ya can call it whatever ya wanna, but ’round here it’s always been him, always The River Man.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“I hoped her brakes would fail and we would slam into the back of another car and spin upside-down into a ditch, horribly mutilating her while leaving me unscathed.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“Every note he plays is a drop of blood from someone’s heart.”
― Kristopher Triana, Gone to See the River Man

“but here I was, up the duff and jolly well fucked.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“Blood had become her cum and she wanted to give the whole world a facial.”
― Kristopher Triana, Body Art

“The thunder of demons shuddered through me, making my body feel like a mere pod of skin and sinew, as if my consciousness had exited the confines of my body and had become its own ethereal being.”
― Kristopher Triana, Full Brutal

“There would be no next stage, only a sad continuation of this gray oblivion until he found the serenity of the grave.”
― Kristopher Triana, Along the River of Flesh

“you need to go full brutal.”
― Kristopher Triana

“Crazy how time just moves right on like a bulldozer, not letting anything slow it down.”
― Kristopher Triana, That Night in the Woods

“The cobra looks down upon the rattlesnake, yet both are filled with venom.”
― Kristopher Triana, Along the River of Flesh