Lindsey Lane > Quotes

“Looking at the birds together in the same moment was the conversation. I mean, if you’re with a guy who is thinking that each person, each thing contains waves of possibilities and those possibilities might exist in alternate dimensions, then you can kind of see how being together seeing the same thing at the same time is a pretty big deal.”
― Lindsey Lane, Evidence of Things Not Seen

“He would get tripped up in simple conversation. When I’d leave the art room and I’d say something like, “See you next time.” Instead of saying, “Okay,” he’d say, “What next time?” It’s like he had to be superliteral about everything because he was thinking in so many different dimensions. So if I said something casual or unspecific, it caused like static in his brain and he had to stop and tune the channel.”
― Lindsey Lane, Evidence of Things Not Seen

“Tara looks up at the blanket of stars. She wonders, if one exploded, would all the other stars wobble in their orbit? … That’s how death is. It turns your world up side down. It makes what was real seem unreal. It pulls you out of normal. Makes you do things you’ve never done before. Like sit outside in the middle of the night with a bag full of your dad’s ashes. When someone dies, your whole orbit changes.”
― Lindsey Lane, Evidence of Things Not Seen

“We leave pieces of ourselves everywhere. Every time we meet someone, they take some of us and we take some of them. That's how it is. Little particles stick us together. Bit by bit. I think it's how we get whole.”
― Lindsey Lane

“Rachel would say the rabbit was afraid and ran. I don't think fear exists for animals. I think they smell and hear and react. That's all. We name it fear. I'm not sure it's fear. It's how they survive. But is it fear? I don't know.”
― Lindsey Lane

“What I'm trying to say is, it's hard to live with not knowing. Like you want to know if your son is dead or alive. But it's uncertain. This life is a mystery. We have to live each day with the mystery.”
― Lindsey Lane