The Dog Killer of Utica Quotes

“Kyle says (with glee), “Addicted to breathing? I can fix that. Get on the rower and give me two thousand meters, all out, and vomit! Vomit your guts!—quick, down on the floor, forty push-ups, crack your spine!—quick! Quick! Bench two hundred pounds to muscle failure—die slowly!—burst your clotted chest!—give me one hundred squats in one hundred seconds—no resting, Conte!—pull that five-hundred-pound sled back and forth the length of the floor and stop making those noises! Did I see you eye-fuck the clock? Would you like the Suicide Stairs? Hurry! Hurry! Slam that thirty-pound medicine ball, not on the floor but through it, twenty times, penetrate that floor, Conte, rape it hard and explode your evil heart and balls.”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Dog Killer of Utica: An Eliot Conte Mystery

“Tom said people should repaint their houses in and out, especially in, at least once a year—because who wants to live with the memories of themselves?”
― Frank Lentricchia, The Dog Killer of Utica: An Eliot Conte Mystery