Status Updates From Empty Cages: A Novel

“Three deaths back to back, as if they're trying to catch up to one another. They want to make it into at least one scene alongside the leading man. Three deaths back to back. They echo in my heart like les trois coups "Bang ... bang ... bang"-just as the curtain is about to rise.”

“Didn’t someone say that fate could be a good accomplice sometimes? Fate keeps an eye out so that we can run away as far as possible.”

“Some days change your life. They don’t have any particular shape or color, and we never see them coming because they’re just like any other.”

“Illness and death fail to recognize innuendo, metaphor, and white lies. They take the things we say literally; they do exactly as they're told. You'd have to be an idiot to think that all our destinies are laid out in full.
We issue instructions when we're not thinking and then quickly forget about them, but their fulfillment, when it comes, is always sudden and unerring.”

“For the dream of a different life, I summoned the diligent student of my past.”

“ i was nourished on tears and crumbs. <\i>

“it makes me queasy to think that my life could be a lesson.”

“The same morning, she poured an entire bottle of kerosene onto the plant and set it on fire. It didn’t grow back after that. As with anything, if you stab it in the heart, it’s done for.”