Evan Da Silva

“I’ve always believed it’s important to accept the people in your life for what they are. There’s no such thing as a perfect friend, any more than there’s any such thing as a perfect anything, and if you slag everyone in your life for their many and varied failings, you’re going to miss appreciating the good stuff they bring to the table.”
― Edward Ashton, Mickey7

“He had once shucked corn with an old man named Garnet Quick who had lost an ear in the War Between the States, the one they fought over freeing the slaves, and Ellsworth had harbored a sneaking suspicion ever since he’d talked to the man that a war could get started over the least little thing.”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table

“Ambiance? I’ve heard that word before, ain’t I?” “Sure you have,” Cane said. “Remember that line in the book about Bloody Bill? Talkin’ about the sportin’ house? ‘The elegant, subdued ambiance of the gilded room was—’ ” Then Chimney, still staring out the window, cut in and finished the sentence: “ ‘…suddenly shattered by the forced entry of a lustful, liquor-soaked Bloody Bill, his side-arms rattling in their tooled-leather holsters and his gold tooth gleaming in the light from the candelabras like the rarest of Satan’s jewels.’ ”
― Donald Ray Pollock, The Heavenly Table

“Joe and Isaiah sat for a while, sharing the pipe and watching the men quarrel. The men did not seem to notice anybody else, and their disagreement never ended. Joe wondered about the passage of time, and how ever since he died it had felt like a river that ran every which way.”
― Alex Grecian, Red Rabbit