Neil Turner > Quotes

“fifteen-minute recess and come back or we can adjourn for the weekend. I would prefer to hear from another witness or two if possible,”
― Neil Turner, A House on Liberty Street

“deeply into pile carpeting that threatens to swallow us whole. A burnished steel FTW logo stretches across the wall with the tagline Feeding the World just below it. Black-and-white photos of basic foodstuffs dot the walls—bushels of maize and soybeans, fields of grain. Feeding the world, my ass, I think as we’re shuttled toward a meeting room. I’ve done some reading up on these folks. FTW is a commodity-trading firm that works to manipulate the futures market to drive up prices. There seems to be nothing that the world’s bankers believe they shouldn’t be free to exploit, including food staples. I imagine that in their perfect world, bankers would pocket a penny or two with every bite.”
― Neil Turner, Plane in the Lake

“To realize that one walks the earth alone is at once profoundly terrifying and profoundly liberating. If nobody else cares, I don’t have to, either. There are no longer expectations to live up to, no appearances to keep up, no possibility of continuing to fail myself and others.”
― Neil Turner, A House on Liberty Street

“I’m not sure who’s comforting who at this point. I suppose it doesn’t really matter. A good hug is restorative for everyone involved.”
― Neil Turner, Scared Silent