Brian Eff

“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Wise Blood

“The office women looked at him and shivered. They knew he was a bastard, they his big hands were born to slap with, they knew his face would never break into a smile when he looked at a woman. They knew what he was, they thanked God for their husbands, and still they shivered. Because they knew how he would fall on a woman in the night. Like a tree".”
― Richard Stark, The Hunter

“You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.”
― Graham Greene, Brighton Rock

“It's a good world if you don't weaken.”
― Graham Greene, Brighton Rock