Elizabeth

“The boldness of this leap teaches us something important about the short story: it is not a documentary or a rigorous accounting of the passage of time or a fair-minded attempt to show life as it is really lived; it's a radically shaped, even somewhat cartoonish (when held up against the tedious real world) little time machine that thrills us with the extremity of its decisiveness.”
― George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain

“Doubt kindles our suspicious intelligence and at the same time extinguishes our capacity for love.”
― Simon Critchley, Mysticism

“My intuition—it is nothing more than that—is that music, common, shared, everyday music, low or high or somewhere in between, is able, at its best, to describe how we feel and to allow us to feel something more.”
― Simon Critchley, Mysticism

“Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red