Karen Kay

“There is no antidote, he writes, against the opium of time. The winter sun shows how soon the light fades from the ash, how soon night enfolds us. Hour upon hour is added to the sum. Time itself grows old. Pyramids, arches and obelisks are melting pillars of snow. Not even those who have found a place amidst the heavenly constellations have perpetuated their names: Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osiris in the Dog Star. Indeed, old families last not three oaks.”
― W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn

“The truth is not in the touch of a stone, but in what the stone tells you.”
― Rene Denfeld, The Enchanted

“Unsheltered, I live in daylight. And like the wandering bird I rest in thee.”
― Barbara Kingsolver, Unsheltered

“On one hand, you couldn’t count on anything; on the other, on any given day, change was vanishingly unlikely.”
― Garth Risk Hallberg, City on Fire