Ben Stephenson > Quotes

“I was every stack of books, forever shifting and pounding and being pushed and rearranged but remaining essentially the same; I was every book in every stack.”
― Ben Stephenson, A Matter of Life and Death Or Something

“The trees are a thousand times taller than me, and hundreds of years older, and the rocks and leaves and plants and animals never do anything silly like kill each other or fall in love or grow up.”
― Ben Stephenson, A Matter of Life and Death Or Something

“People have shapes.All we do and say and think and believe cuts outlines around us like a jigsaw.And sometimes, you run into a person who seems to fit right beside you in the picture.Someone who sticks out where you dent in and zigs where you zag.”
― Ben Stephenson, A Matter of Life and Death Or Something