“The point was the struggle. The earth thickened here so that he would labor. The shovel felt heavy so that he could feel he was doing something. The world provided resistance, and as we struggled through, we learned our final… — David Vann Copy Share Image
“What if everything was unfinished? What if everything was made incomplete?” — David Vann 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 water but… — David Vann Copy Share Image
“A city holds all that we want and a million times what we don't want.” — David Vann 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 long hikes… — 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
“What do we owe for what has come before us, the previous generation?... The problem is that we can never enter this shadow world… — David Vann 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 two born.… — 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 are always… — 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 a minute… — David Vann 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 feel he… — 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 no calcium… — David Vann Copy Share Image
