Christian Kiefer > Quotes

“I don’t care what you meant to do. I really don’t.
I only care about what you actually do. That’s important. The rest of it is just a bunch of bull shit.
--- Grace.”
― Christian Kiefer, The Animals

“And he believed it too, believed, in that moment, that the arrow he had made for himself would continue its long upward motion. As if there was no possibility of return, no aphelion or perihelion to chart the long spiral of his orbit around whatever false burning center he had made.
Know this. That the things that go into the fire are forever changed. That all you have ever done can be measured not by distance but by circumference. That these twin spirals of smoke: they are your life, rising in curls.”
― Christian Kiefer, The Infinite Tides

“Know this. That the things that go into the fire are forever changed. That all you have ever done can be measured not by distance but by circumference. That these twin spirals of smoke; they are your life, rising in curls.”
― Christian Kiefer, The Infinite Tides

“town’s last surviving Victorian mansions, a tall, stately affair situated on the corner of the old highway and the edge of the interstate overpass. Sometimes I would stop on that overpass and watch the cars whiz underneath me on their way to Sacramento”
― Christian Kiefer, Phantoms