Caleb Mosley’s Reviews > Martyr! > Status Update

first of all, woah

“When asked about the difficulties of sculpture, Michelangelo said, ‘It is easy. You just chip away all the stone that isn’t David.’ …I want to be the chisel, not the David. What can I make of being here? And what can I make of not?”

“Martyr. I want to scream it in an airport. I want to die killing the president. Ours and everyone’s. I want them all to have been right to fear me… I want to be worthy of the great terror my existence inspires.”

didn’t know i needed an interlude but glad i got it

"And look at what belief in that kind of total good versus total evil did. Hitler listening to Wagner in Nuremberg. That's what I’m getting at, you see? The flatness of me being this hero artist, or you being this martyr NSA threat. None of that is real. You know this. I'm not Siegfried any more than you're a dragon."

“…the whole idea of gratitude was possibly classist, or worse. Did a poor Syrian child…qualify for grace only if she possessed a superhuman ability to look beyond her hardship and notice the beauty of a single flower growing through a pile of rubble? And would the gratitude for that flower be contaminated by the awareness, or ignorance, of the bodies turn-in to soil beneath it?”

aye not to be dramatic but this is actually one of the best books ever wtf?