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“and he sputters into Arno’s ear, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” not even sure which transgression he’s apologizing for, there’s been so many in such a short, ugly time, and though he knows what this clinch looks like to any doughboy who spies them behind the hailstorm of detonated dirt, two chickenshits holding each other in the last chickenshit seconds of their chickenshit lives, he doesn’t care, he’s worked with chickens before and they happen to be Earth’s bravest beasts,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“Genesis incorrect after all, life doesn’t beget life, it’s death that begets death, so foundational a principle it has become civilization’s engine, an inferno of grief that, nut by screw by rivet, is refashioned into outrage and hysteria and vengeance and moral polarity, a cycle perfected by the so-called War to End All Wars, which, Bagger understands with horror, is really the War to Begin All Wars,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“I said this thing was a thing too little for even God to care about. The smith said: “Wife, it’s my duty to correct you. I am your husband, and I am telling you now, God cares very, very, very much about even the smallest things.” And I said: “Well, it’s good to know he cares about your dick then.”
― David Greig, The Book of I

“Good morning, life, you gorgeous bitch—I’m back!”
― David Greig, The Book of I