And second, everyone is so weird, but they're all completely accepted. It's like, okay, you have a pumpkin head, and that guy's made of tin, and you're a talking chicken, but what the hell, let's do a road trip. Votes: 7
...all I knew were novels. It gave me pause, for a moment, that all my reference points were fiction, that all my narratives were lies." Votes: 4
Like a good American, I wanted to sue somebody. But like a good librarian, I just sat at my desk and waited. Votes: 4
The loneliest thing in the world is lying awake beside someone asleep. ~ "The November Story Votes: 4
By then there had been other men. She'd flung herself at other closed windows. The windows never broke, but her heart, at the end, was in splinters. Votes: 4
[E]scaping is its own special brand of pain, and tied to you always are the strings of the souls who didn't save themselves. ~ The Worst You Ever Feel Votes: 1
Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of old book dust. Votes: 1
We aren't haunted by the dead, but by the impossible reach of history. By how unknowable these others are to us, how unfathomable we'd be to them. Votes: 1