51 Quotes by Benjamin Percy

The editor-writer relationship should not be thought of as adversarial.

The world is a sewer of lies. We’re all up to our necks in the sweet shit of it.

They wear masks that hide how hairy they are on the inside.

The letting of blood, for him, like the letting of semen.

They’re always wrong in the movies.

The best way to mess with the head of your reader is to strategize the delivery of bad news.

Matters of the heart make your world worth occupying.

The girl remains on the ground. He looks at her and she looks at him and the air feels at once static and loaded, as if there is some kind of undersound his ear can't quite decipher. Like after a bell rings. That's how it is between them. There is something celestial about her, her skin a pale color, but a paleness of the softest gray-white imaginable, as if she had been soaking for years in a bath of moonlight.

Maybe Virginia Woolf thought about going to the lighthouse, but I doubt she ever got there, or the novel might have ended differently.