Purdy Patrick

“Oh, how naturally teenagers took to self-destruction! To the bottomless sensation of waiting, no new messages from the message machine, all manner of restless ennui. To be young was to long for the future, to grieve it and fear it in equal measures.”
― Olivie Blake, All Manner of Thing Shall Be

“John had encouraged her to read the books in his box, but reading the books wasn’t like reading municipal notices or rotation schedules. It seemed to require a different style of attention altogether. Whenever she tried to read one, she experienced a pseudoblindness; she could still see, in the sense that there were shapes and colours in front of her, but her brain stopped processing the information about them, and a wall of sorts rose between her and the world.”
― Kaliane Bradley, A Visit to the Husband Archive

“He wondered if the moon was as flat as the earth.”
― Jason Vail, Murder at Broadstowe Manor

“And they were committed. To the point of jail, which is a large commitment. And to the point of death, which hovers always near a heretic in a police state and which turns to stare a Deep South Negro directly in the face at that moment when he utters that word so long taboo for Negroes in America, “No.”
― Howard Zinn, THE INDISPENSIBLE ZINN