Linda Eissler

“Because money is all things (or can be all things), something strange happens to the person who has it. As Marx says, it's like someone finding, by pure chance, the philosopher's stone. You know the philosopher's stone?"
"Yes, I know what the philosopher's stone is."
"The philosopher's stone gives you all the knowledge. All of it. All the knowledge of all the sciences. Imagine that someone just finds this stone. By luck. Suddenly he would have all this knowledge, regardless of his individuality. Even if he's a perfect idiot. All of it. All the knowledge.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“Life was not safe and nothing could make it so, neither fashionable dresses nor bank accounts. The baseline of human life was courage.”
― Paulette Jiles, News of the World

“The terrifying freedom of knowing that nothing, from now on, will become a memory”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“The word I was typing was always in the past while the word I was thinking of was always in the future, which left the present oddly uninhabited”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust