Jack Collier

“I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.”
― Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility

“Colleen, you breathe like an old cocker spaniel. In the future when you phone someone to harass them, maybe you should try to shut your mouth and breathe through your nose.”
― Douglas Stuart, Shuggie Bain

“It seems awfully untoward to go about demanding people’s Christian names like a child or an American.”
― Alice Winn, In Memoriam

“He simply used water to clear the way for liquor, the way streets are cleaned before an official visit.”
― Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March