“At the time, I thought my life couldn’t get any worse. Here’s some advice: Don’t ever think that.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“She glimpsed that same craving in Jenny Fisk—an ask, for suffering. It was the scariest thing about being a woman. It was hardwired, ageless, the part that knew you could have the good without the hurt, but it wouldn’t be nearly as exquisite.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
“Sister love was like food, or air, or memory itself. It was molecular. The very stuff of her.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
“I felt the kindliness of the moss, which is all over everywhere once you get out of the made world. God’s flooring. All the kinds, pillowy, pin-cushiony, shag carpet. Gray sticks of moss with red heads like matchsticks. Some tiny dead part of me woke up to the moss and said, Man. Where you been.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“Sunday school stories are just another type of superhero comic. Counting on Jesus to save the day is no more real than sending up the Batman signal.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
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