Christopher Raffa

“It was one thing to live in a world where death stood a distant figure, quite another to hold it in your hands.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.”
― David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle

“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten (135)”
― Cormac McCarthy

“He said if he is not the word of God God never spoke (4)”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road