Dirt Quotes

“The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could feel he was doing something. The world provided resistance, and as we struggled through, we learned our final lessons.”
― David Vann, Dirt

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

“This table felt extremely dangerous. He understood now that what held his family together was violence.”
― David Vann, Dirt

“She had made him into a kind of husband,her own son.”
― David Vann, Dirt