Sarah Hmp

“I couldn't think of anything other than her and the components of her. For example, her red hair. But was I so primitive I let myself be bewitched by hair? I mean, really. Hair! It's just hair! Everyone has it! She puts it up, she lets it down. So what? And why did all the other parts of her have me wheezing with delight? I mean, who hasn't got a back, or a belly, or armpits? This whole finicky obsession serves to humiliate me even as I write it, sure, but I suppose it isn't that abnormal. That's what first love is all about. What happens is you meet a love object and immediately a hole inside you starts aching, the hole that is always there but you don't notice until someone comes along, plugs it up, and then runs away with the plug.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

“مردم همیشه شکایت می‌کنند که چرا کفش ندارن تا اینکه یه روز آدمی رو می‌بینن که پا نداره و بعد غر می‌زنن که چرا ویلچر اتوماتیک ندارن. چرا؟ چی باعث می‌شه که به طور ناخودآگاه خودشون رو از یه سیستم ملال‌آور به یکی دیگه پرت کنن؟ چرا اراده فقط معطوفه به جزئیات و نه کلیات؟ چرا به جای اینکه «کجا باید کار کنم؟» نمی‌گیم «چرا باید کار کنم؟» چرا به جای «چرا باید تشکیل خانواده بدم؟» می‌گیم «کی باید تشکیل خانواده بدم؟»”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

“How could I tell him that I now wanted what he had once wanted----to travel on trains and fall in love with girls with dark eyes and extravagant lips? It didn't matter to me if at the end of it I had nothing to show but sore thighs. It wasn't my fault that the life of the wanderer, the wayfarer, had fallen out of favor with the world. So what if it was no longer acceptable to drift with the wind, asking for bread and a roof, sleeping on bales of hay and enjoying dalliances with barefooted farmgirls, then running away before the harvest? This was the life I wanted, blowing around like a leaf with appetites.”
― Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

“اگه نمی‌تونی خارق‌العاده باشی، مبهم باش. اگه ندونن به چی می‌خوای برسی، هیچ‌وقت متوجه نمی‌شن در رسیدن بهش شکست خوردی”
― Steve Toltz, Quicksand