Braden

“Do you believe in hell, Justina?"
"Yes, Susana. And in heaven, too."
"I only believe in hell, " said Susana.”
― Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo

“Alan said he'd known what to expect from de St Jorre from the kick-off, since in his preface this cretin speaks of banned books being burnt in the same way heretics were burnt by religious tyrants. Alan was quick to denounce the cruel inhumanity of liberal fuckwits who wantonly blurred the lines between human life and products of a literary culture that had yet to escape its commodity form.”
― Stewart Home, 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess

“What suckling craved the creature, born full-fanged?”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia of Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides. The Greek text as arranged for performance at Cambridge with an English verse translation

“And suddenly the idea comes into your head that perhaps now, at this very moment while you are passing by, in one of the rooms behind those drab shutters, at a worm-eaten desk, among bundles of papers tied up with red or green tape, with scratchy old-fashioned penstrokes, your fate is being inscribed”
― Anna Kavan, Sleep Has His House