Megan Hunter > Quotes

“It is bad, the news. Bad news as it always was, forever, but worse. More relevant. This is what you don't want, we realize. What no one ever wanted: for the news to be relevant.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“We are told not to panic, the most panic-inducing instruction known to man.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“There is a trail of anger flowing through my bloodline, from my great-grandmother, to my grandmother, to my mother, to me.”
― Megan Hunter, The Harpy

“There are so many different kinds of quiet, and only one word for them. The quiet in the house has matured from quiet as lack of noise to something else, a textured, grainy quiet, a thickness to stumble through.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“The water rose and rose, and they could not recognize each other in the torrent, in the endless rain from above.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“When I was a child, my mother told me she would die for me, of course. I asked her all the time. Tested her.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“I have read that, when someone knows they are going to die, the world becomes acutely itself.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“Night speeds by, and we lose it in lamenting. Here comes the place, the right turn, where they all live untouched by sorrow.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“The scenarios for his death are the most vivid daydreams I have ever had.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“This not-stopping seems to be the first side effect. Everything has been unstopped, is rising to the surface.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

“Between the waves of disemboweling wrench, the world is shining. I feel like Aldous Huxley on mescaline. I am drenched in IS-ness.”
― Megan Hunter, The End We Start From