Floating Staircase Quotes

“It has been said that nature does not know extinction. In effect, it knows only change: nothing ever truly disappears, for there is always something—some part, some particle, some formidable semblance—left behind. You can boil water into vapor, but it hasn’t disappeared. Curiosity killed the cat, but condensation brought it back.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“All good books are honest books.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald,”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“Before we begin, I want your word that much of what I show you tonight stays between us.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“You need to cast an anchor and hold on to something before you can change direction—and because I’d never cast that proverbial anchor, I eventually struck an iceberg”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“What followed was a jigsaw assemblage of snapshot indiscretions better left in the dark.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“It has been said that nature does not know extinction—that once you’ve existed, all parts of you, whether they’ve dispersed or remained together, will always be. Thick dust may hide the relics of human history, but it cannot erase the memory.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“Because he is my brother, I will suffer a thousand deaths to vindicate his.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“My father, who’d always been an intimidating physical presence, seemed to grow smaller day by day, some vital bone or organ now broken within him. He reminded me more and more of those rusted old cars on concrete blocks, colorless weeds growing all around him.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“What happens to a young boy who’s forced to live in a ten-by-ten room that resembled something out of “The Cask of Amontillado”?”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“the unfortunate name of Harry Peters”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“And it was my fault.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“Having never been a religious person—having no belief in God or any variation thereof—it was all I had.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“Quite often fiction is the best reality; cruelties are so much easier to swallow when they’re dressed up and capering about like circus clowns.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase

“When you withdraw from the world, you find that the world withdraws from you, too. Then all that’s left is the Grayness, the Void, and this is where you remain. Like a cancerous cell. Like a cut of tissue, diseased, in a Petri dish.”
― Ronald Malfi, Floating Staircase