Quotes by B. Barker

“You’ve always got me”“Always?”“Didn’t I just say so?”“Yes”“Am I liar? ““No.” I lied.””

“I will say it one last time: Demonation! The feeling of it! -how can there be?- to describe what it feels like to words, to feel your life encoded, and laid out in black ink on white paper. All my love and hatred, melted into words. It was like the End of the World.””

“You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.””

“Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to be tears or nothing I'm afraid.That's all I've got left to tell you see: tears, tears, tears.””

“I was cured in my new infamy of all the tired wisdom of age. I would never weary into that tired state again---I swore to myself, I would always be this raw, wet child hereafter...””

“Quitoon knew the world well. It wasn't jut Humankind and its works he knew, but all manner of things without any clear connection between them. He knew about spices, parliaments, salamanders, lullabies, curses, forms of discourse and disease; of riddles, chains, and sanities; ways to make sweetmeats, love and widows; tales to tell children, tales to tell their parents, tales to tell yourself on days when everything you know means nothing.””

“Your kind has a superstitious terror of things ugly and broken; you fear that their condition may somehow infect you.””

“My skull was a face that concealed scorpions.””

“I will treat you with my knife the way you've treated my pages with your merciless eyes. Backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards.””

“I decided that I would do my best to be the worst thing Hell ever vomited forth.””

“Jesus supposedly lived sometime between 4 B.C.E. and 30 C.E., but there is not a single contemporary historical mention of Jesus, not by Romans or by Jews, not by believers or by unbelievers, not during his entire lifetime.””

“Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you.””