Last Stories and Other Stories Quotes

“This is my final book. Any subsequent productions bearing my name will have been composed by a ghost.”
― William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories

“Doroteja was having one of those nightmares we all know, in which the wind becomes the rustling of a dead lady’s dress as she ascends the stairs. When she awoke, she sought to persuade herself that the dream was good, and signified treasure from beyond the grave.”
― William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories

“It is the body that is in danger, not you.”
― William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories

“Some of our miseries may be called tragedies of place,”
― William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories

“But Jovo Cirtovich had always hoped to interpose smoothness between himself and brutality.”
― William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories

“The awareness in an animal’s eyes is alien beyond knowledge, whereas the gaze from within the dark-glass haunted him because he nearly comprehended it.”
― William T. Vollmann, Last Stories and Other Stories