9 Quotes by Brian Francis

They're horrible little creatures. All snot and smelly feet and pestering questions.""Then why did you go into teaching?""It was either that or sit at home with Mother all day. I picked the lesser of two evils.

I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.

On the drive up here, I saw a goose," he says. "A Canada goose. Fred told me they shit something horrible. They migrate between the north and the south, don't they? Like seniors.

It's weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It's like they're friends or something.

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

It’s weird when you hear teachers call each other by their first names. It’s like they’re friends or something.

Transcendence and dissolution, always the same thing.

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

The war could kill the faith in him, too, if he was not strong or careful enough. He could feel it fluttering within him sometimes, a bird in a cage of knives. Its own blood on its face and wings.