Christopher Stevenson

“This [Ulysses] is obviously the wave of the future, I'm glad I'm dying of tuberculosis.”
― Katherine Mansfield

“We clung to New York like it could give us
purpose, make our lives bigger and more
significant by proxy. Or maybe we just wanted an
otherwhere with fewer ghosts and more chances
to rise and fail.”
― LJ Pemberton, Still Alive

“Why do such bad questions get predictably asked? Maybe part of the problem is that we have learned to ask the wrong questions of ourselves. Our culture is steeped in a kind of pop psychology whose obsessive question is: Are you happy? We ask it so reflexively that i seems natural to wish that a pharmacist with a time machine could deliver a lifetime supply of antidepressants to Bloomsbury, so that an incomparable feminist prose stylist could be reoriented to produce litters of Woolf babies.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Mother of All Questions

“I have always been good at lying because the lies I tell are goals I haven’t committed to.”
― LJ Pemberton, Still Alive