Jeff Falzone

“—I've always liked hardware stores. All the glues and the garbage pails and the adzes and insect zappers. Makes you feel good. Some people think hardware stores are testaments to decay. Proofs that the creation exists to unmake itself, that everything's heading drainward. Negative. Just take a look, and all those stores are arguing precisely the opposite - that the world can be made better, significantly better, in, like, endless numbers of ways. They're seriously optimistic places—”
― Evan Dara, Flee

“When the sun was rising I doubted its value, as it set I lamented its loss.”
― Evan Dara, The Easy Chain

“There is only one thing children find harder to hold back than tears, and that is joy.”
― Karl Ove Knausgård, A Time for Everything

“-So how about you?, I said: what do you do, if you don't mind my asking;
-Not at all, he said: I'm into mitosis;
-Aren't we all, I said;-”
― Evan Dara, The Lost Scrapbook