Last Days Quotes

“Curiosity is a terrible thing, he was thinking. How is it possible to stop oneself from needing to know?”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“That’s Kline,” he said. “We know and love him. He’s like a person to us.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“What was the truth? he wondered. How important was it to know? And once he knew, what then?”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“Still,” said Ramse. “You’re not much. You’re what you are and we love you for it, but you’re not much.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“Mr Kline," the voice said.
"Would you mind putting Mlinko on?"
"Mlinko seems to be dead," said Kline.
"Appears or is?"
"Both," said Kline”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“They drove, the city slowly dissolving around them and breaking up into fields and trees.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“How much weirder, thought Kline, is it possible for my life to get? And then he pushed the thought down and tried to ignore it, afraid of what the answer might be.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“Of course there’s another choice, he thought. There is always another choice. I’m just not going to take it.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“As long as you are following God’s will, friend Kline. But even God sometimes becomes impatient. You know the story of Jonah, friend Kline? How many whales do you suppose God will deign send to swallow you? When does God run out of whales?”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“Kline felt his limbs grow suddenly heavy, the missing limb most of all.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“I am your friend,” Gous said. “I drank with you, didn’t I?”
Kline tried to nod but nothing happened. He could see the wrappings around Gous’ hand staining with blood.
“Besides,” said Gous, “friendship is one thing, God another.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“How do you know the moment when you cease to be human? Is it the moment when you decide to carry a head before you by its hair, extended before you like a lantern, as if you are Diogenes in search of one just man?”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“Mr. Kline, surely you’re enough of an armchair philosopher to realize that everything is a reconstruction of something else? Reality is a desperate and evasive creature.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“His only mistake was not realizing there was a second car. There’s always a second car. Except when there’s not.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“Who you are is a puzzle it may take the rest of your life to solve, and in the end it may turn out that you are merely the person who spent his life trying to work out the puzzle of who he was. But that . . . that’s not nothing.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“It makes no difference whether you believe in God, since God, so I have been led to understand, believes in you.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“Would you mind putting Mlinko on?"
"Mlinko seems to be dead," said Kline.
"Appears or is?"
"Both," said Kline.”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days

“chiaroscuro”
― Brian Evenson, Last Days