Whereas Quotes

“Evil always has an advantage and always succeeds until its enormous feet understep some moral chasm, or a damsel held dear by the populace cries out and is heard.”
― Stephen Dunn, Whereas: Poems

“Finally, though, she had to admit a penis was silly, mostly hiding, like a diphthong in a sentence you had to work too hard to figure out.”
― Stephen Dunn, Whereas: Poems

“She’d seen her best friends disappear into their marriages. Even when she spoke on the phone to them, they weren’t there.”
― Stephen Dunn, Whereas: Poems

“She was thinking a woman needed an angel for every son of a bitch she’d ever known.”
― Stephen Dunn, Whereas: Poems

“Doesn’t blood usually follow when language fails?”
― Stephen Dunn, Whereas: Poems

“In fact, he had become an it, and those of us who knew him noted how poorly itness suited him, his pale demeanor resembling nothing he’d been.”
― Stephen Dunn, Whereas: Poems