“I wrote about the future because I wanted to invent it. I wrote about the present so that it wouldn't obliterate me.”
― Coexistence: Stories
― Coexistence: Stories
“Thus, Fyodorov suggests, at some point in time it will be possible to trace every atom that once belonged to a person and to put them all together again.”
― The Wolves of Eternity: A Novel
― The Wolves of Eternity: A Novel
“But he said he'd come with me to Lancaster so that I didn't get murdered. I said that if we both got murdered then the baby would be an orphan. He said we'd have to bring the baby too so that way we we'd all get murdered. And then we'd just be gone. Like those children in the plane crash. Like my dentist. So we decided to bring the baby. Plus the baby liked car rides.”
― Earth Angel
― Earth Angel
“And that the death we carry within us, which Rilke compares to a fruit, grows inside us until ripe, and is in other words alive, belonging to life itself.”
― The Wolves of Eternity: A Novel
― The Wolves of Eternity: A Novel
“It's October, and the shorter days have made us hungrier, depriving us of light and forcing us to look for it in other people.”
― Coexistence: Stories
― Coexistence: Stories
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