Coming and Crying Quotes

“And when a futurist dies, the tragedy is that we lose access to all the possible futures they imagined for us. Our only connection, afterward, is through the arcane procedure like literary interpretation, like reading the flight of birds or throwing the I Ching, as Ballard must have as a child in Shanghai. Like it or not, we live in one of Ballard’s futures; a little apocalyptic, bent by technology.”
― William Ball, Coming and Crying

“It was in his office, though, where he told me he’d never had anal sex. His cock was very large, but anal was so trendy and ubiquitous that I thought it impossible that there was anyone left in America who hadn’t tried it.”
― Charlotte Shane, Coming and Crying

“It seems a little scary that most things in my life that I will remember, in ten years or something, will be the things I’ve chosen to write about, because sometimes it seems a little arbitrary what I choose to write about, sometimes I choose to write about things that didn’t happen in concrete reality, and sometimes I don’t choose to write about things that I want to remember because, among other reasons, they’re difficult to write about or not “artistically satisfying” to write about. But I’m also glad about this “side effect” of writing because it seems like a clear and desirable reason, among other reasons, to write—to strengthen my memory of certain things.”
― Melissa Gira Grant, Coming & Crying