Page 258 Quotes

“In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptually impaired body or a body impaired by the creation of a world that is no longer human in scale.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

“They are not sorrows, so much as terrible things.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream

“...it was a feeling with nowhere to go. Was that what love was, and how it came to you--leaving you no options for its use?”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules

“Now, though, there would be no more escaping. Eriko had emerged victorious - over that young man, over any other of Shōko's men. Finally, she was creating with Shōko a world that men couldn't enter.”
― Asako Yuzuki, Hooked