Tim Lieder > Quotes

“I sought out the smell of the clay-spattered Nephil, the unfinished man”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

“dehiscent”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

“If Yahweh was so damned powerful, then why didn't He do His own housecleaning? Abraham's arguments with God must have set a sick precedent for collaboration. Humans were very adept at doing His dirty work, not to mention their own.”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

“The bride price taught her that nothing mattered. Civilizations rose and fell. Scriptures twisted. Promised lands fell to dust. Freak rains buried sand dunes in overgrowth.”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

“I doubt God listens to me. Did he listen to Judas or any of those he set up to take the fall? Even his only son was willing to believe him so capricious as to forsake him in the final hour.”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

“I’ve read stories about the sorrows immortals suffered because of how much they had seen over their long lives. What rubbish. I would trade my mortality for their immortality in a heartbeat”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

“The story of David has all the rape, patricide, fratricide, betrayal and civil war that you’re ever going to want in an epic - but also a terrible beauty and a sense of joy that cannot be mitigated even in the most tragic moments.”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

“I’ve heard voices before. Oh, most certainly, I might be mad, but I think everyone does at one time or another. The static on the radio or the trickle of water through a radiator transforms into a flock of people all talking at once. Our minds struggle to make sense of nonsense,”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

“Laid out his body under Enkidu and sheared the hair from his body with a kiss!”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror

“Regardless of religion (or lack thereof), lovers of speculative fiction will swallow up these provocative stories. - Erin O'Riordan,”
― Tim Lieder, She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror