Emily Rink

“baseball is really the game that tells you what life is going to be: fastballs, errors, wild pitching, clutch hits, strike-outs, not getting to first base, things coming in from left field. Near misses. And that’s just the romance part.”
― Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

“Lawyers are filing documents. Judges are signing orders. Scientist and doctors are collating data. Pharaoh’s heart is as hard as ever.”
― Paul Harding, This Other Eden

“Other ideas still, though, were darker, underwater, or he underwater and they above the surface, clear and sharp and focused. He could hear them in his head, feel their weight in his chest and their shapes in his throat, but he was slow of tongue and they went unworded. He knew everyone had the same kind of ideas, but that his thoughts outdistanced his words sooner than with other people—even the words for what he meant when he thought about this hovered above the water—dark, familiar circling birds he could not name.”
― Paul Harding, This Other Eden

“Everyone at some point in their lives should have a long great love affair with a magnificent lunatic.”
― Lorrie Moore, I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home