Audrey Coldwell

“It was only a reminder that I actually, amazingly, still loved David. That my feelings for George and Clarissa were mindful, thoughtful, compared to this bone-deep kind that David’s voice had shaken loose. How to put it? This type of sadness. Not nostalgia. Not grief. Just the obvious and sudden fact that my life looked an inch shorter than it could have been.”
― Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

“And by that time, all of Mark’s and Julia’s and Ian’s problems would be so far in the past, so irrelevant, it would be as if they’d never even touched the earth.”
― Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

“The history of sound, lost daily. I’ve started to think of Earth as a wax cylinder; the sun the needle, laid on the land and drawing out the day’s music—the sound of people arguing, cooking, laughing, singing, moaning, crying, flirting. And behind that, a silent sweep of millions of sleeping people, washing across the Earth like static.”
― Ben Shattuck, The History of Sound: Stories

“Who are you?' She said, 'Have you always been like this? Have you just been waiting to happen?”
― Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep