...I felt the stirring even of parts of me that had been dead since childhood, that sense of the child as a sort of antenna stuck in the middle of an infinite expanse of possibilities.
Denis JohnsonShe was a woman, a traitor, and a killer. Males and females wanted her. But I was the only one who ever could have loved her.
Denis JohnsonTags: love jesus-son denis-johnson
Howling, are you?” the Indian said. “There it is for you, then. That’s what happens, that’s what they say: There’s not a wolf alive that can’t tame a man.
Denis JohnsonLiving up the Moyea with plenty of small chores to distract him, he forgot he was a sad man. When the hymns began, he remembered.
Denis JohnsonHe saw no sign of their Bible, either. If the Lord had failed to protect even the book of his own Word, this proved to Grainier that here had come a fire stronger than God.
Denis JohnsonIncidentally, this is the only letter I'll send— don't think I'll turn you in, don't think for a second I'd alert the authorities, I mean, fuck them, and certainly, of course, fuck you, but above everything fuck them. I've always stood for that. Admittedly not much else.
Denis JohnsonMaybe, when you hear the name "Beverly," you think of Beverly Hills--people wandering the streets with their heads shot off by money.
Denis JohnsonTags: money beverly-hills
Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.
Denis JohnsonShe wanted to eat my heart and be lost in the desert with what she'd done, she wanted to fall on her knees and give birth from it, she wanted to hurt me as only a child can be hurt by its mother.
Denis JohnsonHow could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.
Denis JohnsonTags: low
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