The Works of Vermin Quotes

“The front lines had taught him that optimism is often fatal. It's all that looking forward to the future, his old sergeant used to say. You don't see the present blazing in from the flank.”
― Hiron Ennes, The Works of Vermin

“I don’t want it. I don’t want to be remembered. I don’t want to rip off parts of myself and leave them behind. Picking off a little more every day and putting it up for display. Like watching your own corpse rot... It’s not worth it. It’s too steep. It’s too goddamn steep, the price of beauty nowadays.”
― Hiron Ennes, The Works of Vermin

“As the man lays his partner down in the rubble, kneeling over him like a devotee over a martyr, she captures him again. Perfectly timed, perfectly composed, the picture immortalizes a moment of profound tenderness in the chaos. She has no idea what is happening, but realizes with painful clarity that this is the photograph she has grasped for her whole career, this is the reason the camera was rediscovered, the reason light itself bends through a lens. It is the best picture she will ever take.”
― Hiron Ennes, The Works of Vermin

“(From far away, he’s scribbled in the margins of his Manual, delusions are
scary. Up close, kind of sad.)”
― Hiron Ennes, The Works of Vermin