Patrick deWitt
:: The Sisters Brothers
We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.
What would the world be, I thought, without money hung around our necks, hung around our very souls?
"You are afraid of hell. But that's all religion is, really. Fear of a place we'd rather not be, and where there's no such a thing as suicide to steal us away."
Most people are chained to their own fear and stupidity and haven't the sense to level a cold eye at just what is wrong with their lives. Most people will continue on, dissatisfied but never attempting to understand why, or how they might change things for the better, and they die with nothing in their hearts but dirt and old, thin blood - weak blood, diluted - and their memories aren't worth a goddamned thing...