Elijah Sands

“Though my initial progress did not look or feel like progress, I believe it was a kind of progress, that of just staying in place, of not slipping backward into despair.”
― Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric Disturbances

“The function of this school is custodial. It’s here to keep these kids off the streets until the girls are big enough to get pregnant and the boys are old enough to go out and hold up a gas station.”
― William Gaddis, J R

“Everything is nothing, with a twist.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― David Foster Wallace, The Pale King