Adam Hill

“before she was lost to the Tenderloin, north of Fascination, up in the boisterous and dirty hotels that formed the pearls on the chain of her bare life, barer even than mine.”
― Rachel Kushner, The Mars Room

“I've been within an inch of my life.”
― Gary Lutz

“The memories are few and like dreams of her life resuming a muted sound of snow    falling into itself.”
― Carolyn Forché, The Angel of History