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Each thing that happens to us, each and every thing, it leaves some dent, and that dent will always be there. Each of us is a walking wreck. — David Vann

You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first. — John Gay

I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different. — Barbra Streisand

The places that ive been, the things that i have seen - what you have as nightmares, are what i have as dreams. — DMX

I thought that was a wonderful idea, that one could be on hell without being in it, like "Just Visiting" on the Monopoly board. — David Vann

She had made him into a kind of husband,her own son. — David Vann

You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver. — Hannah Kent

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way. — Joe Hill

What we do not understand, we cannot control. — Charles A. Reich

It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony. — Nathan Hill

I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's. — Abbie Cornish

Silence and loneliness cannot last for ever. It may be a hundred or a thousand years, but the sea lasts longer, and she shall come out of it and sing. — E. M. Forster

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror. — Louis Sullivan

Our young men and women must be taught that through hard work, they can create opportunities for themselves and others. — Sunday Adelaja

The dead reaching for us, needing us, but this isn't true. There's only us reaching for them, trying to find ourselves. — David Vann

Cutting through layers,this labor like cutting through the illusion of self to find there was no core, only the layers. — David Vann

This table felt extremely dangerous. He understood now that what held his family together was violence. — David Vann

The ezer is a warrior, and this has far-reaching implications for women, not only in marriage, but in every relationship, season, and walk of life. — Carolyn Custis James

What myth can hold when you kneel in your brother's remains? When you slit his throat yourself? What story can guide us if we can betray all? — David Vann

There are no gods, only men. — David Vann

What's the point of sea horses? I asked.
The old man stood before them, mouth hung open, as if before his god. — David Vann

Sometimes, a family is like an ear of summer corn: It might look perfect on the outside, but when you peel the husk away. every kernel is rotten. — Sara Shepard

This is what I've always loved about a city, all the worlds hidden away inside, largest of aquariums. — David Vann

What would the world be like if men never ruled again? — David Vann

Origins...They don't explain us, you know. They never do. Each of us is our own piece of work. — David Vann

The perfect man sees nothing but God. — Swami Vivekananda

Why can't any common fuck be king? — David Vann

the best choice we have on the menu tonight. — David Vann

One life can never know another's. — David Vann

And only men could have invented the idea of a king. — David Vann

India has left a deeper mark upon the history the philosophy and the religion of mankind than any other terrestrial unit in the universe. — George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

There must be at least one god not filled with rage. — David Vann

There can be no god without desire. — David Vann

A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again? — David Vann

Having something to look forward to changes everything. I've always needed a future. I can't live without one. — David Vann

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty. — David Vann

Because you can choose who you'll be with, but you can't choose who they'll become. — David Vann

She has done this for Jason and will do more, she knows. Her brother dismembered at her feet. This is how the world begins. — David Vann

If you look at something in the distance long enough, you eventually have to go there. — David Vann

Absurdity is all that makes grief bearable — David Vann

What would it feel like to be ravished by a god, to hold a deity. — David Vann

That night longer than all my life before it. No scale or measure in this world can ever be held constant. We are always slipping. — David Vann

When you're cold, don't expect sympathy from someone who's warm. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn