Chy

“You have to play the system. They think you’re weak and girly? Act weak and girly. Use their own prejudices against them. Then when they’re not looking, cut their fucking throats.”
― C.J. Skuse, Sweetpea

“Looking at his brother then Jack realized that he never considered Howard much of a sentient being, never considerered that he ever had a real though or plan about anything. He had always though of him as some kind of machine or animal, reacting to the world in an instinctual manner. This thought alarmed and embarrassed him.”
― Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World

“Compress your being into a book and call it holy.”
― Kien Lam, Extinction Theory: Poems

“The next hurt is always coming, always close by, Forrest had said, lying in the hospital. Jack stood by the bed and stared at the ragged stitching under his brother's chin, the black, bristling threads against his white-blue neck. The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.”
― Matt Bondurant, The Wettest County in the World