“He will live to see them make him a national hero and he will die the only person thinking he had failed. That’s what happens when you personify hopes and dreams in one person. He becomes nothing more than a literary device.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“Mythmaking. It’s greater than you or I, this tale.”
― Gods of Jade and Shadow
― Gods of Jade and Shadow
“The problem with a book is that you never know what it’s planning to do to you until you’re too far into it. I really need to take a shower.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“Weeper stare at me hard then laugh. Nothing like a Weeper laugh, it start like a wheeze then somewhere, and you never know where, it explode into the biggest thing in the room. Who teach this little black man that he can laugh so?”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“Under the gully you just never know how the stink can drive a man mad. How he can think crazy shit and wicked shit and nasty shit, kill a baby shit or fuck a little girl shit or shit in church shit because the stink so stink all you can think is that the stink must be easing into you like water through a strainer and now you must be stink too. And I just want to wash it off, I just want to wash the whole thing off but the water running through the gully stink too.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
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