Stephen Heaton

“It tasted as if I’d taken a drink directly from the diseased asshole of an incontinent skunk. It took all of my strength not to vomit.”
― Matt Dinniman, Dungeon Crawler Carl

“Wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it.”
― Chinua Achebe, The African Trilogy

“those whose palm-kernels were cracked for them by a benevolent spirit should not forget to be humble.”
― Chinua Achebe, The African Trilogy

“the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past—or, more accurately, pastness—is a position.”
― Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History