Bright Air Black Quotes

“Born to destroy kings, born to reshape the world, born to horrify and break and remake, born to endure and never be erased. Hekate Medea, more than god and more than woman, alive now, in the time of origin.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“If enough people repeat the stories for long enough, Jason will become something that cannot die, but he also will have been erased, because the actions are too large and impersonal. The stories will reveal nothing about the real man who lived.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“There are no gods, only men.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“There can be no god without desire.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“Medea is without words, without thought. She has unstrung the world, pulled some vital thread and unraveled all. Nothing to do now but hold her breath and find out whether a new world re-forms.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“There must be at least one god not filled with rage.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“If you look at something in the distance long enough, you eventually have to go there.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“Why can’t any common fuck be king?”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“And only men could have invented the idea of a king.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“What would the world be like if men never ruled again?”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“What myth can hold when you kneel in your brother’s remains? When you slit his throat yourself? What story can guide us if we can betray all?”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“What would it feel like to be ravished by a god, to hold a deity.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black

“She has done this for Jason and will do more, she knows. Her brother dismembered at her feet. This is how the world begins.”
― David Vann, Bright Air Black