Michael Craig

“Detail established truth. The color of the dog. Without detail, truth was a metaphysically unstable idea: too general, too big; cause and effect going all the way back to first dates, to ancestors surviving winter storms, to dinosaurs, to organisms in a puddle.”
― Melanie Finn, The Gloaming

“That morning. When we were having breakfast. I looked at Markus. The sun was on his face and he was busy eating and didn’t see me and I felt such sadness that my child was leaving me. But it’s what they do; it’s their purpose, to leave you. I don’t think you’re ever ready. Are you?”
― Melanie Finn, The Gloaming

“People lived with a lot of awful things, some of them very comfortably”
― Melanie Finn, The Gloaming

“people who change affinities are the same kinds of people who are attracted to the permanence of tattoos.”
― Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake