Sway Quotes

“They wanted you to grow up into some helpless combination of old person and infant. They wanted you to have a house and a family and a refrigerator and a TV, and not know how any of it worked. They wanted you to spend your life working on something that was never concrete, never anything you could see or hold in your hands, and if you didn't do that they wanted to put you in jail. Cutting down forests, poisoning the earth - it was a country driven by stupid, blind impulse. It was a country where nobody knew where their food came from or where their garbage went, they just flushed the bowl, kept eating it and throwing it away, building bombs and computers, cars and TVs, sending people off to Vietnam so they could set it on fire. It was a country that had turned against everyone he knew, cast them out like garbage, and all they could do was smile to themselves at all they'd learned and wait patiently for the fires to start here at home.”
― Zachary Lazar, Sway

“He raised one of his hands, as if to pluck something small from the air, then did the same with the other hand. "Moving a piano, making a few bucks like that," he said. "One moment, the next moment - that's who you are after a while, all those little moments. They're not something you can just go back and change. They're like rooms. They stay there after you leave.”
― Zachary Lazar, Sway