Louis Muñoz

“What do you people have against punctuation, Caleb? You haven’t lived till you’ve used a dash and a semicolon in the same sentence.”
― Aster Glenn Gray, The Sleeping Soldier

“Carefully, stealthily, Caleb added this photograph to the portraits of Russell and Julia. Then, calm as anything, he slipped them into his backpack, tucking them in the front cover of John Halifax, Gentleman, so they wouldn’t get crumpled. Russell needed them more than the archive, anyway.”
― Aster Glenn Gray, The Sleeping Soldier

“But even as he clung to Carol, even as he swore to himself he loved her, Caleb pursued a summer job in Chicago. Cities, he knew, were the place to meet other men like him. Even in his own mind he couldn’t bring himself to put it more clearly than that.”
― Aster Glenn Gray, The Sleeping Soldier

“like the long descriptions that you don’t get anymore, and the way that Dickens will use six adjectives when he could use just one, and the meandering plots. And—and I like how emotional old books are,” Caleb admitted, wriggling in embarrassment. “I feel like people actually are that emotional, and characters in modern books are too restrained.”
― Aster Glenn Gray, The Sleeping Soldier