Don Boselovic

“You knew, you knew the Commandments, had learned them out of the missal-thin pages of the green Catechism, where, in a genius move of utter simplicity God had set the high bar for Christianity by saying Love your neighbor like yourself, and you read that and looked over at your neighbor, Patrick Plunkett picking his nose and pressing the pickings on the underside of your desk, and by virtue of nothing more than carnal reality that bar got that much higher.”
― Niall Williams, This Is Happiness

“Good people, bad people, what does that even mean? Get down to the rock and the hard place, and we’re all just soft flesh and the weapon at hand.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Demon Copperhead

“Alma used the word settled the way less genteel people used motherfucker, as a chisel to pry open a particular feeling.”
― Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle

“Crooks and civilians need to congregate every once in a while to reinforce their life decisions.”
― Colson Whitehead