“History has begun the music. We now must all dance to her tune—or be crushed.”


“I find it hard to believe that you, the author of The Blind Man’s Lantern, can’t imagine an explanation better than souvenir underpants.”
― Going Home in the Dark
― Going Home in the Dark

“There is no need to trust someone who couldn’t hurt you,”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth

“Charlie and Ruth pretended to be lovebirds, though in fact they loathed each other, but it worked for them because they took great pleasure in loathing.”
― Going Home in the Dark
― Going Home in the Dark

“His first impulse was to turn the car around, head back to the airport in Indianapolis, fly to California, take a flight from there to Tokyo, and then decide on a destination that was comfortably far away from Maple Grove.”
― Going Home in the Dark
― Going Home in the Dark

“For two shameful months, she’d engaged in phone sales, making cold calls to peddle something called the Golden Years Medicine Cabinet to seniors, which consisted of an arthritis-pain “diminimizer,” the world’s most reliable toe-fungus eliminator, a favored antacid of presidents and kings so exclusive that it wasn’t sold in stores, a stool softener guaranteed to cure constipation when all similar remedies failed, and other products for the treatment of warts, age spots, split nails, and the tragedy of uncontrolled flatulence.”
― Going Home in the Dark
― Going Home in the Dark
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