Andrew Johnson

“mostly I just threw the insurance forms in the garbage and slept in the bathroom. Always in the handicapped stall. It was clean, spacious, and down at the end of the row against the wall so you couldn’t have guys shitting against you on two fronts. Like my grandmother said, “In the bedroom and the bathroom, never get outflanked.” I was six years old. God she was a pig.”
― Paul Neilan, Apathy and Other Small Victories: A Novel

“was another disappointment he hardly bothered to conceal. Like many men who consider their success incomplete, he was extraordinarily vain and consumed with a sense of his own importance.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“He was forty-two years old, and he could see nothing before him that he wished to enjoy and little behind him that he cared to remember.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“Two angels and a devil had tumbled into the water. Three angels came up. Forgiveness, then, was possible even for the worst.”
― Christopher Buehlman, Between Two Fires