Category: Book Review: Fiction
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When I Sing, Mountains Dance
““Nothing lasts very long,” the mountains say chillingly, “Not a thing. Not stillness. Nor calamity. Nor the sea. Nor your ugly little children.””
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The Promise
“Apartheid has fallen, see, we die right next to each other now, in intimate proximity. It’s just the living part we still have to work out.”
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The Midnight Library
“It is easy to mourn the lives we aren’t living. Easy to wish we’d developed other talents, said yes to different offers.”
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Pleasure Beach
“Language’s progression mirrors the structure of desire. The. Inability. To. Ever. Get. To. The. Thing. Itself. But. The. Eternal. Desire. To. Try.”
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We Used To Live Here
“But that is just my imagination, and a person can imagine all sorts of things if they take the time to just be creative.”
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This Must Be The Place
“We must pursue what’s in front of us, not what we can’t have or what we have lost. We must grasp what we can reach and hold on, fast.”
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The Heart Goes Last
“If you do bad things for reasons you’ve been told are good, does it make you a bad person?”
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The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything
“The feeling you have of wanting me, of not wanting to share me? That feeling is love.”
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Queenie
“Maybe if all ah we had learned to talk about our troubles, we wouldn’t carry so much on our shoulders all the way to the grave.”
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