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“The tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing möbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“Some were as singable as any human tune. He counted, sensitizing to the calls that played off one another, each a solo against a mass chorus. He lost count after a dozen, unsure where to lump and where to split. Every complex riff was identifiable, although Weber could identify none. Softer, in the middle distance, he heard the shush of cars along Interstate 80 whooshing like sprung balloons.”
― Richard Powers, The Echo Maker

“It's hardly wisdom, but the older I get the more I believe that our lives are built not out of time, but light. The problem is that the images that so often return to me are seldom those I want.”
― Colum McCann, TransAtlantic

“We're living in the age of mass hypnotism. As long as we keep clapping our hands and believing, the captains of industry will take care of us.”
― Richard Powers, The Echo Maker