Binocular Vision Quotes

“Still she wondered: did the present deliver up the future, or must you chase your destiny like a harpoonist?”
― Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

“He gave her that last word. He gave her his love. He would think of her almost every day for the rest of his life. Only his presence would he withhold.”
― Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

“What a rich phrase. You could live a life on the income it yielded.”
― Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

“But you said the words you knew, which were not always the ones you meant.”
― Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

“They were relieved that I was chosen by a human being," she'd said to Angelica in her dry voice. "They were braced for an interspecies liaison.”
― Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories