New Fiction Quotes

“Ugh! She cursed her lack of attention to the [mythology] reading. Who could have known that would be the important class?”
― Joannah Miley, The Immortal Game

“I was assigned a public defender. We were all hopeful things would go differently. They did not go differently. They went this way.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

“You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl.” -- Benjamin East”
― Jonathan Freedman

“Shadows are not an absolute black. Just a place of reduced visibility. Peripheral vision is more sensitive than our direct vision. If you look at a dim star straight on, it can disappear. But, if you look at it off to the side, it comes back.”
― Nicole T. Smith, We Have Shadows Too