Milo Fritz’s Reviews > Hell Followed With Us > Status Update

“Then, of course, proof that Mom has dug faith into me like thorns under my skin, like a tattoo I can’t carve off, like trauma: Even when my chest splits open the next second, I think, ‘But He still might be real, and I’m just too broken to feel it. It’s my fault.’”

I love the parallels being drawn between Benji’s return and the Prodigal Son. It really hammers home that the Angels don’t actually care about the Bible beyond what they want it to say. They don’t see Benji as a person, they see him only as a weapon and a tool.

“Do you believe in God? —I do, please stop, there’s so much blood”

“In what world was my God ever a benevolent one?”