Michael Craig

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

“Nature doesn’t bother me. What bothers me in nature is the possibility of people.”
― Rachel Kushner, Creation Lake

“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? Do you have children, Inspector? You know they’ll grow up and have imperfect lives and people will hurt them and they’ll be unsatisfied and selfish, and so I think maybe by leaving now he’s only known happiness and love.”
― Melanie Finn, The Gloaming

“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