Burn Collector Quotes

“Life was good back then, in the crappy, oppressive way life is good for fourteen year olds, which is to say, it completely sucked but seems pretty good in the obscuring glare of nostalgia.”
― Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine

“I like Fall, tending to prefer the transitional seasons, because they don’t have weather, just foreshadowing. It’s not cold yet, but it’s getting colder. You look hippest in this weather, dressed in your faux-proletariat thrift store jacket and long pants to hide your dorky knees. Fall seems pregnant with the possibility of simpler things, a straight-forward future.”
― Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One through Nine

“In most respects a pretty standard student domicile, there was something very unnerving about the apartment, and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Eventually I realized: the light in the bathroom never turns off.”
― Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine

“My father clearly felt a great weight of guilt and remorse over the failure of his marriage, but being a man of the mind, a man who had rejected whatever religious upbringing he had received as a child, he was unable to assuage his guilt through penance or the clutching of rosary beads, and something compelled him to replace the religious sacrament of the rosary with fish stick consumption.”
― Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One Through Nine

“Places grow to have meaning in your life from experience, from the process of connecting. The inevitable contemplation of commemorative tattoos follows.”
― Al Burian, Burn Collector: Collected Stories from One through Nine