7 quotes found
“Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth.”
“As soon as she sees me she swings forward and hits a key on her keyboard. The music cuts off instantly. Strangely, the silence that follows seems just as loud.”
“Sympathizer.Its only slightly better than the other word that followed me for years after my moms death, a snakelike hiss, undulating, leaving its trail of poison: Suicide.A sideways word, a word t...”
“My aunt just stood there, and in that second it was as though the world and the future collapsed down into a single point, and I understood that thisthe kitchen, the spotless cream linoleum floors,...”
“Sympathizer.It’s only slightly better than the other word that followed me for years after my mom’s death, a snakelike hiss, undulating, leaving its trail of poison: Suicide.A sideways word, a word...”