A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

by Anthony Marra

“No one can take what’s inside your head once it’s there.”

“Your life’s work could be scrubbing piss from a toilet bowl. Work isn’t meaningful just because you spend your life doing it.”

You can choose your son no more than you can choose your father, but you can choose how you will treat him,

Entire years had passed when he was rich enough in time to disregard the loose change of a minute,