Status Updates From Burnside

When you’re a marine, or a boxer, you’re supposed to be able to anticipate surprises. But there’s nothing surprising about an attack anywhere; either you’re in a place where it’s expected, like the boxing ring, or you’re an inhabitant of the world, which is a boxing ring in everything but name and additionally is riddled with actual boxing rings!

We told them we were in school, that September studied philosophy and I studied English. Like the language you already speak? the barber asked, smirking.

every step he took forward pushed us a step back, increasing my awareness of the corners of rooms.

"the cinephile thought as much about death as she did about life. To her, it was all the same long day."

The future is completely undateable.

Wait I love this book. Watch this space

Sorry I started reading this a while ago

this book has been so mentally stimulating. it’s so interesting to get lost in the narrators tangents