Frederick Busch > Quotes

“What to know about pain is how little we deserve it, how simple it is to give, how hard to lose.”
― Frederick Busch, The Stories of Frederick Busch

“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead face and find my living eyes. In his case, the life and death were reversed, and the flesh of his face was living ground, while his eyes were little monuments to lifelessness buried therein.”
― Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector

“... Within the mind, especially the mind under great stress... boundaries of space and time are meaningless, and the... interior self lives by other rules and in other dimensions.”
― Frederick Busch, A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

“I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.”
― Frederick Busch

“She better not die this time," I guess I said.”
― Frederick Busch

“We live in several moments, several places, at once.”
― Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector

“It is the kind of moment life gives us when it laughs. It is choosing without choice. A rich meagerness, that.”
― Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector

“....he knew that he'd run into his destiny as a man in the dark walks into a wall.”
― Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector