Braden

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

“My partner had made perhaps ten strokes before the sap rose within him and he fell upon my back, smothering me like a collapsing building.”
― Stewart Home, 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess

“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

“When everything's said and done, unfortunately, we find ourselves in the position of children whose parents have gone to the theatre, leaving them alone in the dark house. Yes, we are forced, if we are honest, to make the saddest of all admissions when it comes to the last resort: Alas, we do not understand these things.”
― Anna Kavan, Sleep Has His House