Obliteration Quotes

“…the impulse for transgression and a taste for abasement is not so difficult to locate and arouse. Because of course it is thrilling to be astutely defiled. To have every revered trait and inimitable asset compromised, undermined, and subverted.”
― Claire-Louise Bennett, Checkout 19

“Oh,” Obliteration continued, “I think that you’ll find a man can do many things thought impossible, if he tries hard enough.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Firefight

“When the bombs fell, it wasn't a war; it was an obliteration. No one had any idea who shot first or why.”
― Joe Reyes, Aftermath

“The light and the heat tantalize, but stray too close and face obliteration.”
― Joe Okonkwo, Jazz Moon

“What hurts me every time I think about it is that he killed him by passing over him, not by shooting him. You know, his crime is majestically nonchalant.”
― Kamel Daoud, The Meursault Investigation

“A hunger to be small as a scrap of light, warming
strangers without being seen, to be lost in the crack between cobblestones, in the sliver of space between lovemaking bodies, to be nothing more concrete than the exhalation of dust from a book. The urge to be obliterated and yet held on the surface of the skin: this is the paradox of the oppressed.”
― Sondra Charbadze, The Sea Once Swallowed Me: A Memoir of Love, Solitude, and the Limits of Language

“Ignorance is obliteration.”
― Lenore Stutznegger, Blue Shadows Fall