Karlie

“The phrase that came to her mind was "the long and sudden of I." We go on and on through the long months of our lives until we hit a sudden moment that stuns us.”
― Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air

“I work in a giant building:
forty floors and forty cubicles
per wing, four wings per floor,
one person and one personal
computer per cubicle, a labyrinth
in which everyone's goal is to stay lost.”
― John Engman, Temporary Help: Poems

“He sat heavily down on a tall tubular adjustable chair, which shortened suddenly under his weight and split him on the floor. Somebody always leaves a banana-skin on the scene of a tragedy.”
― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana

“Born on third base, my daddy always said of the well off, and they think they hit a home run.”
― Mary Karr, Lit