Brian Francis Quotes

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.

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.

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

There are no words for so much loss, not right after it happens.

These cords that God makes, Reverend Bauxite thought, we stand holding one end while they run taut into the darkness.

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.