Jeff

“It's important to avoid mirrors if one is unprepared to accept their daily news, and I think, in something as insignificantly devastating as appearance, denial is more socially constructive than despondency. Not that there's anything especially wrong with me--just the usual.”
― Rivka Galchen, American Innovations

“The gradual and imperceptible subsidence of the waters, that’s the alluvium. Thus am I gradually left alone, thus have I been left alone.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Informers

“Life was like one big marching army. Death ran alongside and picked off a soldier here and there, but that didn’t affect the army. Its march continued, and its size didn’t seem to diminish. On the contrary, it grew on into eternity, so that no one was alone in death. Someone else would always follow. That was what counted. Such was the chain of life: unbreakable. But”
― Carsten Jensen, We, the Drowned

“Even the most normal person, if placed in a highly abnormal situation, can be mistakenly perceived as the source of abnormality of the person/circumstance aggregate”
― Rivka Galchen, American Innovations