Steven

“As he spoke of their childhood days Judah sat up to press the back of his hand to his mouth and say she was as real to me as hunger or fear and I think I was born with her in my mind.”
― Michael Farris Smith

“he’d have to improve significantly to achieve mediocrity.”
― Richard Russo, Chances Are . . .

“His conception of God was of an omnipotent being who was a union not of three persons in one God-head, as in Christianity, but of two-a sick fuck and an evil genius.”
― Philip Roth-Nemesis

“My question for Will is: Does this feel like a country at peace or at war? I’m joking, sort of, but he answers seriously. He says it feels the way it does just before it starts. It’s a weird thing, but you learn to pick up on it. Even while everybody’s convincing themselves it’s going to be okay, it’s there in the air somehow. The whole thing is more physical than mental, he tells me. Like hackles? The way a dog’s hackles go up? Yes, he says.”
― Jenny Offill, Weather