The Crooked God Machine Quotes

“The human brain has the unique ability to doubt the reality presented to itself. To comprehend the dissonance between ideas and the truth of the surrounding world. God knows this, and it infuriates him. It terrifies him.”
― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine

“Well, you know. It's always the end of the world.”
― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine

“if you truly want to know why I'm helping you, you won't get any easy answers. It's not because I believe in the goodness of humankind. It's not because I believe God and the rest of the monsters are evil. I only wish to have the capacity to change. To know that we have the ability to take a different direction than the one presented to us. That is more important than good and evil. Than life or death.”
― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine

“Why does this matter to you?” “Because I want to know you,” I said. “You’ve never known anyone in your life.” “I want to try,” I said.”
― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine

“When we saw each other across the clearing, our meeting spot, we walked toward each other with hesitant, lamb steps. We felt each other’s heads for the heat of the wire spider. “You’re still here,” I whispered, when I felt nothing but her cool scalp. “Still here,” she said.”
― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine

“Those Apocalypse Brigadiers got all riled up after we electrocuted that girl in town square,” Ezekiel said. “Rioting, blowing up the street, demanding her corpse so they can desecrate it. It’s great. Come down here.”
― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine

“Get this straight, kids,” the prophet said. “If you think you're anything but dirt, then you're in for a surprise. Ignore everything your principal said. It doesn't matter what you do. You're still going to die. You're all sinners and scum of the earth. You've spent the last eighteen years of your life fucking, cussing, and spiting at the Lord. Well, kids, when the end comes, you're going to be wishing your mother aborted you with a coat hanger and ended your miserable existence before it ever began.”
― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine

“He wrapped duct tape and plastic wrap around his bald head so girls couldn't read his mind, so he said. He raised chickens to torture and slaughter because his daddy said every good boy had a little sociopath in him. Smarts talked with a lisp and walked with a limp, though Ezekiel told me had it on good authority Smarts was faking both. For what reason, though, Ezekiel couldn't say.”
― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine

“Before God made us the universe was a lifeless place. When we're gone the universe will go on as if we'd never even been here,” Daddy said. “Life is a rather strange and dangerous thing.”
― Autumn Christian, The Crooked God Machine