9 quotes found
“Madness is only an amplification of what you already are.”
“Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.”
“They will not let you have peace, they don't want you to have anything they don't have themselves.”
“The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.”
“speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.”
“The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into anything else. The stone with the name and date was o...”
“From her handbag she takes a round gilt compact with violets on the cover. She opens it, unclosing her other self, and runs her fingertip around the corners of her mouth, left one, right one; then ...”
“I learned about religion the way most children learned about sex, [in the schoolyard]. . . . They terrified me by telling me there was a dead man in the sky watching everything I did and I retaliat...”
“You all right?" he said again.I didn't love him, I was far away from him, it was as though I was seeing him through a smeared window or glossy paper; he didn't belong here. But he existed, he deser...”
