Eva Jurczyk > Quotes

“The skin on his face hung off his skull like a wet rag on a rock.”
― Eva Jurczyk, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

“I’m an old woman,” Liesl said. “I’m pretty well invisible when I walk down the street. It’s excellent armor.”
― Eva Jurczyk, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

“They had bigger problems than poorly deployed literary devices.”
― Eva Jurczyk, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

“The three of us were so close we could have been touching, yet the three of us had experienced the sixty seconds that had just gone by totally differently. If you had asked me a year ago, I 'd have said that was the magic of life, that difference in experience. It's what I'd always loved about living in a city. You're always in motion. In a cab, on the subway, walking briskly, so you aren't in any one place long enough to have the same experiences as the people who you're shoulder to shoulder with.”
― Eva Jurczyk, 6:40 to Montreal

“There's this myth that dogs go away to be alone when it's time for them to die so that they can spare the pack the sadness of their death. It isn't true. If a dog goes into hiding when it becomes ill, it does so to avoid becoming a target for other animals when it can't protect itself. A dying dog doesn't hide out of compassion. It does so out of fear.”
― Eva Jurczyk, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

“We’re not young,” she said. “Some might even call us old. But we weren’t always.”
― Eva Jurczyk, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

“I would not offer clues about my intentions. “Anyone getting off along the way?” “Not today,” Dorcas said. “We’re in for the long haul with this merry band of thieves.”
― Eva Jurczyk, 6:40 to Montreal

“She had never been beautiful. She knew that a lack of aesthetic appeal was no way to get yourself taken seriously.”
― Eva Jurczyk, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

“I don’t need to be inspired by my work. I need to be paid for it, and for it to not interfere with the rest of my life.”
― Eva Jurczyk, The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections

“It's a masculine thing, this denial of little flaws. All the evidence favors my argument.”
― Eva Jurczyk, 6:40 to Montreal