Status Updates From Truly Like Lightning

“If god is perfect and he changes his mind, doesn’t that mean he’s not perfect?”

“We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”

“Parasite. Yes! All I am is a mouth, eyes, asshole, and a cock—seeing, eating, talking, taking, buying, shitting, fucking, and making money. One of gods ugliest, simplest, most perfect creatures.”

How can you atone to nature for your nature doing what it does? … How do you atone to God for being as he made you?”

“Does dying for an idea make that idea worth dying for?”

“Righteousness did not have to raise its voice or use muscle to prevail.”

“One parent, two parents, three parents, none, no one knows how the fuck it gets done.”

“Even the righteous once’s had to figure the evil angles and do the dark math. Everybody has dirty, bloody, calloused hands.”

“She who can sustain the most pains wins… Now buck the fuck up”

“What happens to a woman when her justifications outweigh her foundations?”


“But the truth of life itself — it didn’t matter. None of this shit mattered. It was all child’s play after all. And that was fucking beautiful, not tragic.”

“He’d been enlarged, that was a gift, and now emptied, another gift, and he was ready to be refilled.”

“People are simpler than you think, they’re like Birds.”
“They like being up in the air?”
“No, Killer. They like shiny things.”

“Don’t future trip, Expectations are future resentments.”

This book is getting a little better, I guess.

I just finished the first part of the book, and it had a LOT of colorful language in it.