Frank

“His black hat sat on his head with a careful, placed expression and his face had a fragile look as if it might have been broken and stuck together again, or like a gun no one knows is loaded.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

“She was afraid he would turn into one of those men who make a saintliness of their resentment, shining through the years with a pure and tortured light.”
― Don DeLillo, Libra

“There is much here that is holy, an aberration in the heartland of the real.”
― Don DeLillo, Libra

“Nietzsche’s diagnosis of deicide mutated into a malignant iconoclasm, not in the name of strength and life-affirming values as he had hoped, but in a “Harrison Bergeron”-style handicapping of all aspirational ideals.”
― Jack Donovan, Fire in the Dark: Men and Gods