Wendy

“No, he hadn't known anything about children, but now he'd learned something: a child's mind is open to everything.”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“Everyone gets killed in the shower. Don't you go to the movies? Psycho. Dead in shower. The MExican in No country for Old Men. Dead in shower. Michelle Pfeiffer in What Lies Beneath. Almost dead in shower, or in the bath, anyway. But she did that thing with her toe and got out OD. Still the shower, though...Glen Close in Fatal Attraction. Dead in shower. John Travolta in Pulp Fiction. Very dead in shower. But never closets. I can't think of anyone shot in a closet. This is why I hide in closets.”
― Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night

“Only the educated stop to look for words—having enough to occasionally misplace them.”
― Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night

“clarity that comes from aging—from the natural process of releasing the mind from imagined futures, and allowing the present and the past to take their rightful place at the center of our attention. The”
― Derek B. Miller, Norwegian by Night