Garrett Hoffmeyer

“Aliens struck me as being rather goth. Luckily, in the daylight, there could be no more effective goth repellent than our home’s hideous furnishings. We had 1970s green and yellow linoleum floors. Neon orange and brown, scratchy, wool plaid furniture. And on the living room wall, a huge, earnest painting of two raccoons someone had made while serving a prison sentence.”
― Alissa Nutting, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls: Breathtakingly Surreal Feminist Short Stories – Dark Comedy

“They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born. There”
― Katherine Dunn, Geek Love

“Did you blame the men who fired the guns, the men who built the guns, or the men who invented the guys? Did you blame the men who had put those particular guns in the hands attached to those particular trigger fingers? When Nick's plane crashed into the ocean off Honduras at a speed which turned the ocean to unyielding stone, was it Western Mountain's fault, for sending him out?Nick's, for going? Anne's, for letting him? Did you blame the human beings who had made such a world possible, or the world that had made such human beings possible?
The answer, she thought, lying now in her missing daughter's bed (Was it Miranda, for pushing a limit any time she saw one? Anne again, for uprooting her so callously, for failing in some way to adequately console her after her father's death?), was that you had two choices: you could blame everybody, or you could blame nobody.”
― Kelly Braffet, Last Seen Leaving

“Human beings suck the life out of everything that's beautiful.”
― Kelly Braffet, Josie and Jack