It’s like the Boss always says: they’re just meat wrapped around a blazing star. We don’t mourn the wrapping once it’s discarded, we celebrate the freeing of the star.

A name is so Jesus will find you. Otherwise Jesus won’t know who he’s looking for and you’d just float in space forever. That would be hutious. What if you fell into the sun, you’d get burned up like human toast!

That’s when Poppy kissed me. I didn’t have time to get ready. She just kissed me there and then, right on the lips. It felt lovely. I wasn’t even scared this time. It was warm and not too wet. I didn’t get any tongue. Her breath smelled like Orange Tic Tacs.

Say it with me: I am a drop in the ocean. I am neighbour, nation, north and nowhere. I am one among many and we all fall together.

Violence always came too easy to you, that’s the problem. It always felt too good. Remember the first time you trod on an ant, and with an infant stamp made the moving still, the present past? Wasn’t that a sickly sweet epiphany? Such power in your feet and at your fingertips such temptation! It would take some act of charity to give all that good stuff away. You’d need to be something greater that just another invention of a spiteful god.

Her laughing was like a wave in the sea, when it landed on you it made you laugh as well.

Mamka říká, že bezpečnostní kamery je jen další způsob, jímž nás Bůh sleduje. Když má pánbůh zástoj na druhým konci světa, jako když zrovna dělá zemětřesení nebo přílivovou vlnu, tak těmi kamerami nás furt vidí.

Už jsem jednou mrtvýho člověka viděl. Bylo to tam, jak jsme bydleli, na trhu v Kaneši. Paní, co tam prodávala pomeranče, srazil minibus; neviděl ho přijíždět nikdo. Já si představoval, že ty pomeranče, který se rozkutálely po zemi, jsou její šťastný vzpomínky a že hledají někoho jinýho, na koho by se mohly přilepit, aby nepřišly vniveč.

Tady je ďábel silnější, protože jsou tu hrozně vysoký budovy. Je tu hrozně mrakodrapů, stíněj nebe a Bůh nevidí, co se děje dole.

That's when Poppy kissed me. I didn't have time to get ready. She just kissed me there and then, right on the lips. It felt lovely. I wasn't even scared this time. It was warm and not too wet. I didn't get any tongue. Her breath smelled like Orange Tic Tacs.