8 Quotes by Brian Francis Slattery

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

They could read it on each other, their faces wrinkled pages. Words hiding in the folds of their clothes. She was made of letters then, as all of us are now.

We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

His voice, what he said, remains, and it is here, all of those voices are here, in what I am telling you. If in the beginning there was the word, then perhaps, with humility at the smallness of our powers, in words a small part of us can return.

You know," she had said, "I believe we are all given at least one moment in our lives when the world reveals itself to us, in all its workings. We comprehend everything at once, and then forget almost all of it a second later, because none of us could hold it all in our heads. But we are changed afterward," shaking her head, "in a most profound way.