Gary Devore > Gary's Quotes

“It came to me then that we're each something of a constant gardener of a million forgotten galaxies, a librarian of lost places and times, a curator of a museum of random details that really only matter to each of us.”
― Jonathan Riggs

“As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“Cleanse my heart... Give me the ability to rage correctly”
― Joe Orton, The Orton Diaries

“Leaving behind books is more beautiful. There are already enough children”
― Margurete Yourcenar