Angie Seffker

“We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heat, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simple we really are. That we can do the same things again and again and again and find them interesting, even fascinating and seek the repetition with a hunger as avid. How fishing was like that, and painting.”
― Peter Heller, The Painter

“Trouble is what creates intelligence? I said yes. Crisis and change and upheaval. His voice turned sad and wondrous. Then we’ll never find anyone smarter than us.”
― Richard Powers, Bewilderment

“Her mother was lost in a sea of irregular verbs.”
― Ann Patchett, Commonwealth

“Robert Lee Hodge was the Marlon Brando of the bloat.”
― Tony Horowitz