Jaci McCon

“As for me, I'm a gurgling wizard of calorific excess.”
― Martin Amis

“He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench.”
― Roberto Bolaño, 2666

“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“When people are mad, do they become different people, or are they versions of themselves with all the horrible things about them magnified?”
― Mari Strachan, The Earth Hums in B Flat