Angel Down Quotes

“What does it matter which nations win which wars? Future wars will reverse all gains. God is on no one’s side,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“everything in war is the residue of men,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“A fellow starts doubting the point of fighting for a country who won’t fight for him,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“countries carved into furious parcels and technology matured to a stage of perpetual regeneration, an entire industrial complex, the hatreds of one age inherited by the next, the next, the next, broadcasted, promulgated, and liked via glass screens yet to be invented but inside which we see our barbarity reflected,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“...and though the world may be damned as a result, what's the world even worth without the one person Bagger wants in it”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“and Bagger”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“and Bagger, already weighed down in mud and blood, further heavies in the dreary certainty that the shriek won't ever end, just like the war won't ever end, like the carnage won't ever end, it's a sentence in a book careening without periods, gasping with too many commas, a sentence that, one begun, can't ever be stopped, a sentence doomed to loop back on itself to form a terrible black wheel that, sooner or later, will drag each and every person to their grave,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“And here is the problem with the lot of you. Devoid of vision, melancholic of spirit. Why have I been cursed with the First Army’s most sullen and fatalistic men? The injustice rankles.”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“Genesis incorrect after all, life doesn’t beget life, it’s death that begets death, so foundational a principle it has become civilization’s engine, an inferno of grief that, nut by screw by rivet, is refashioned into outrage and hysteria and vengeance and moral polarity, a cycle perfected by the so-called War to End All Wars, which, Bagger understands with horror, is really the War to Begin All Wars, countries carved into furious parcels and technology matured to a stage of perpetual regeneration, an entire industrial complex, the hatreds of one age inherited by the next, the next, the next, broadcasted, promulgated, and liked via glass screens yet to be invented but inside which we see our barbarity reflected,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“Mons is a fairy tale. None of you understand time. What does it matter which nations win which wars? Future wars will reverse all gains. God is on no one’s side,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“and what if Honest Abe knew what he was talking about when he’d coined the better angels of our natures, what if he meant it literally, that our judgment at the holy gates is based on how we treat angels when chancing upon them, maybe your angel looks like a woman in a red dress, maybe it looks like a puppy, as long as the being is defenseless it serves as a test of benevolence, maybe that’s what’s happening, Cyril Bagger is being fucking tested, drilled in empathy as he was once drilled in warfare,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“And there were riots. They chased us out of a factory with guns. Forty dead men that look just like me. A fellow starts doubting the point of fighting for a country who won’t fight for him,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“and bullet as seed is a nonsense idea”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“Genesis incorrect after all”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“anything is possible out here where only duality can save your sanity”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“snarled in concertina wire in a pose both pained and graceful”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“they call Bagger a hustler”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“No man will risk anything to assist you”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“he’ll be goddamned if he’s going to start believing in miracles here in hell,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“he’ll be goddamned if he’s going to start believing in miracles here in hell”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“and he sputters into Arno’s ear, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry,” not even sure which transgression he’s apologizing for, there’s been so many in such a short, ugly time, and though he knows what this clinch looks like to any doughboy who spies them behind the hailstorm of detonated dirt, two chickenshits holding each other in the last chickenshit seconds of their chickenshit lives, he doesn’t care, he’s worked with chickens before and they happen to be Earth’s bravest beasts,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“except now the slaughter seems pointless to Bagger, Korak killed because he felt like killing, that’s it, a pattern picked up by the rest of the world, and isn’t it possible the angel was shot down while serving a summons to the human race, subpoenaed to defend the Korak-like crimes they mistook as valor,”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down

“and it’s whiplash to consider the end of the world alongside the new beginning the angel augurs”
― Daniel Kraus, Angel Down