Kasurls

“Life is a series of dogs.”
― George Carlin

“She wheeled around, chin set angrily. "My entire adult life that man told me what to do. What I could like, what was acceptable to talk about. It was like living inside a clenched fist.”
― Kristen Arnett, Mostly Dead Things

“John had once said to me, in a complaining tone, that Father had taught us to be afraid of no man except him. And it was true. Father always insisted that we think for ourselves in every way, except when we disagreed with him, and that we hold ourselves independent of every man’s will, except his. He wanted us simultaneously to be independent and yet to serve him. Father was to be our Abraham; we were to be his little Isaacs. We were supposed to know ahead of time, however, the happy outcome of the story—we were supposed to know that it was a story, not about us and our willingness to lie on a rock on Mount Moriah and be sacrificed under his knife, but about our father and his willingness to obey his terrible God.”
― Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter

“By this evening,” he declared, “we will all know who we are and what we’re doing here!”
― Russell Banks, Cloudsplitter