William Boyle > Quotes

“Mrs. Dirello trudged out of the room, looking like a fat nun on her way to the gas chamber.”
― William Boyle, Gravesend

“You do things because you have to be near the beating heart of terror, Amy thinks.”
― William Boyle, The Lonely Witness

“A picture of her parents is encased in the plastic center of the dial. They’re smiling. It’s their thirtieth-anniversary dinner. They’re younger in the picture than she is now.”
― William Boyle, A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself

“We could've had that life. I'm not sure we didn't. I believe there are parallel worlds where things you think and dream like that are absolutely true.”
― William Boyle, A Friend is a Gift You Give Yourself

“films were especially important to me as I worked on this book: Alan Rudolph’s Choose Me and Trouble in Mind, John Sayles’s City of Hope, and Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky. I also had Garland Jeffreys spinning on repeat, and I’m particularly”
― William Boyle, City of Margins