Terrie Wolf

“The point is: his life was not centered around the place where he lived. His house was just one of many stopping places in a restless, unmoored existence, and this lack of center had the effect of turning him into a perpetual outsider, a tourist of his own life. You never had the feeling that he could be located.”
― Paul Auster, The Invention of Solitude

“Intelligence is no substitute for wisdom. Live long enough to get wise, eh?”
― Adrian McKinty, Dead I Well May Be

“You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.”
― Kent Haruf, Plainsong

“We drank our whiskeys. It was the good stuff and it tasted of salt, sea, rain, wind and the Old Testament.”
― Adrian McKinty, The Cold Cold Ground