Miri

“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.”
― Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

“One man’s nonsense is another man’s sense.”
― Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

“When you died, you died in small doses. You had trouble speaking. You forgot who was beside you. You were suddenly furious and in a panic of outrage. You wished you could be saintly. You wished you weren't so weak. You suddenly felt better and fooled yourself into believing that a miracle was about to happen. Well, wasn't that all a dirty rotten thing to pull on somebody.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The House of Broken Angels

“I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.”
― Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You