The Strangler Quotes

“It was a limitation of human consciousness: We live only in the future and past, we cannot perceive now. Now occupies no space, a hypothetical gap between future and past. Only an exceptional few could feel now athletes and jazzmen and, yes, thieves...”
― William Landay, The Strangler: A Novel

“He yearned for the words. It was an affliction, this constant clutching for words. It felt as if he had been excluded from a conversation.”
― William Landay, The Strangler

“Ricky’s genuine presence, his new capacity to feel deeply, to ache—had come about only as a product of her dying. It was a joke she would have appreciated.”
― William Landay, The Strangler