“What if everything was unfinished? What if everything was made incomplete?” — David Vann Copy Share Image
“This table felt extremely dangerous. He understood now that what held his family together was violence.” — David Vann Copy Share Image
“A city holds all that we want and a million times what we don't want.” — David Vann Time Copy Share Image
“We're not supposed to touch the dead. This is why we make a comfortable afterlife for them, so they will not reach… — David Vann Afterlife Copy Share Image
“WE THINK OF CAIN AS THE ONE WHO KILLED HIS BROTHER, but who else was around to kill? They were the first… — David Vann Cain Copy Share Image
“I thought that was a wonderful idea, that one could be on hell without being in it, like “Just Visiting” on the… — David Vann Hell Copy Share Image
“What do we owe for what has come before us, the previous generation?... The problem is that we can never enter this… — David Vann Copy Share Image
“One night becomes sixty nights. This is the price of hiding. Just hold your breath for one minute and find out what… — David Vann Copy Share Image
“That night longer than all my life before it. No scale or measure in this world can ever be held constant. We… — David Vann Copy Share Image
“The entire legacy of humanity will be only one thing, a line of red goop in the paleo-oceanographic record, a time of… — David Vann Humanity Copy Share Image
“The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could… — David Vann Nature Copy Share Image
“A favored bit from "A Legend of Good Men" "My mother and I each had our routines. She taught high school, took… — David Vann Books Copy Share Image
“Low branches, dead and snapping against us. On the lookout for rattlesnakes. But the path was short enough, and soon we were… — David Vann Overgrown Copy Share Image
“When I went to sleep each night, I imagined myself at the bottom, thousands of feet down, the weight of all that… — David Vann Gliding Copy Share Image
