k. sirek

“So, you love the west," Tucker said.
"Sure do."
"Then it's a stupid love you got."
"How you figure?" I asked.
"'Cause the west don't love you back, son," Tucker said. "You're just whacking off in the sand. Sure, it feels all right, but you'll end up with nothing to show for it and just having to do it again. Plus, it ties up a perfectly good hand that you might be using for somethin' else.”
― Percival Everett, God's Country

“He's white and I'm black and I was fightin' him and two-hundred white witnesses can't convince the twelve I'll never see that I didn't kill him.”
― Percival Everett, God's Country

“She thought there was no greater violence than the one done to meaning.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“Most of us prefer to believe we are the active subjects of our victories but only the passive objects of our defeats. We triumph, but t is not really we who fail—we are ruined by forces beyond our control.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust