Jason Walz

“Language, too, is never neutral.”
― Kirsten Menger-Anderson, The Expert of Subtle Revisions

“Our Town is Emily’s story but the narrator is the story’s vertebrae. Over three months of rehearsal the cast has grown into their roles so that Adina no longer considers them high school students but Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Webb, George Webb. They know how to help someone struggling to remember a line without venturing off script, how to counter one another’s bodies, making certain the audience keeps the best view. For three months Adina hasn’t done anything alone except sleep. So unlike her solitary writing. This must be what it’s like to have a big family, she thinks, kissing every actor on the cheek before entering the stage’s bright grasp.”
― Marie-Helene Bertino, Beautyland

“It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

“Your eyes…” I stared at his irises, never having seen such a dark yet sparkling shade. They were like July foliage in the sun. “They’re so green.” “They’re leaves I took as souvenirs from the Garden of Eden.” He said it so certain, I couldn’t doubt its truth.”
― Tiffany McDaniel, The Summer That Melted Everything