14 quotes found
“Homeopaths argue that water has a memory.”
“If something wants to be a story, it will be.”
“Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.”
“I feel like crying. There's something so sad about broken concrete.”
“Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.”
“There's something romantic about it, of course, in the way only other people's lives can be.”
“I sit up in bed slowly, feeling the disappointment trickle away like puddles after a rain shower.”
“But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.”
“But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.”
“Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a bo...”
“I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.”
“Max always mumbles; not in a shy way, but rather as if he's telling you what it will cost to take out your worst enemy, or how much you'd have to pay to rig a horse race.”
“Sometimes I like to think I live with ghosts. Not from my past, but wispy bits of ideas and books that hang in the air like silk puppets. Sometimes I think I see my own ideas, floating around too, ...”
“The sky is grey, with a thin TV-static drizzle that hangs in the air like it's been freeze-framed.”
