Keith Scheessele

“My secrets are old friends; I would feel like a poor friend if I abandoned them now.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“But it was one thing to allow someone to kill for you and another to let him live next door.”
― Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys

“If one could drown in the grass, thought Elphie, it might be the best way to die.”
― Gregory Maguire, The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked / Son of a Witch / Out of Oz / A Lion Among Men: A Special Collection of the Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture—Now Streaming

“We are to blame for this destruction, we who don’t speak your tongue and don’t know how to keep quiet either. We who didn’t come by boat, who dirty up your doorsteps with our dust, who break your barbed wire. We who came to take your jobs, who dream of wiping your shit, who long to work all hours. We who fill your shiny clean streets with the smell of food, who brought you violence you’d never known, who deliver your dope, who deserve to be chained by neck and feet. We who are happy to die for you, what else could we do? We, the ones who are waiting for who knows what. We, the dark, the short, the greasy, the shifty, the fat, the anemic. We the barbarians.”
― Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World