Problem Fountain Quotes

“What a twisted, twisted place, I think in retrospect… and yet when it was all happening back then, and for many days after I emerged, I couldn’t help but wonder if perhaps it had actually been the straightest place I’d ever visited.”
― Mynah K, Problem Fountain

“But that was all teachers ever did, wasn’t it? They grew and grew and grew until they wondered if they were the only ones growing, and then they shrank and shrank and shrank… and all the while the children grew sharper.”
― Mynah K, Problem Fountain

“Her morning bus was due to arrive any minute, if she hadn’t already missed it. But Sascha was the type of girl who heard incidental music when she walked, and the score surrounding this timid, old cat was much more alluring than the dreary notes surrounding her bus ride.”
― Mynah K, Problem Fountain

“There are places in this world that even god cannot see. The coral reef was of them.”
― Mynah K, Problem Fountain

“There is something truly extraordinary about a tropically-designed city when viewed in overcast light. The neon paints that swarm the buildings maintain their luminosity even in the thin fog, and their voices crackle like those of sleepless children—for even in elderly weather, everything about them is eerily youthful.”
― Mynah K, Problem Fountain

“This is all about ingesting lives, not simply spewing out fragments. There just isn't enough time. Find the language within your head, and don't tame it before letting it into the immaculate room of words. Let it gnash its teeth and recklessly smash its body upon each wall, sending letters flying in all directions toward an unpredictable goal.”
― Mynah K, Problem Fountain

“At six years old, Sebastian was small, but the monsters were large. They hid in the shadows of the places where he felt most vulnerable, and like gods of fear, they invoked prayer in him at least three times day.”
― Mynah K, Problem Fountain