6 quotes found
“The simplest things are the hardest to understand.”
“It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.”
“Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.”
“...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side. ”
“Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that anim...”
“Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?”
