Ziyan’s Reviews > Light Years > Status Update

This is truly the closest thing to a fig (the fruit) a book could be

[W]e're in the grocery store of life.
We sit here at night, we eat, we pay bills.

The power to change one's life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in river water and enter the bodies of swimmers. She was excited, filled with strength. The polished sentences had arrived, it seemed, like so many other things, at just the right time. How can we imagine what our lives should be without the illumination of the lives of others?

If they had been another couple she would have been attracted to them, she would have loved them, even-they were so miserable.

"Detachment is what brings forth humor. It's a paradox.
We're the only creatures that laugh, they say, and the more we laugh, the less we care."