Orientation and Other Stories Quotes

“I read books. I know who I am.”
― Daniel Orozco, Orientation and Other Stories

“You get where you are by yourself. There's no regret in that. That's just the way it is.”
― Daniel Orozco, Orientation and Other Stories

“The shaking will either stop or keep going. Life is lived from moment to moment.”
― Daniel Orozco, Orientation and Other Stories

“It's not just love, or desire, but something profoundly less complex, as unadorned and simple as the vehicle code. Officer laughs, cries. Tearful and giddy, she whales on her demonstrator with what she realizes is joy in her heart.”
― Daniel Orozco, Orientation and Other Stories

“You can't know anybody, not really, not in the brief overlaps of flimsy acquaintance, nor in any of the tenuous and fleeting opportunities for connection that we are afforded.”
― Daniel Orozco, Orientation and Other Stories

“And I know this, too: that I owe nothing to Dave, that I owe nothing to anybody. You get where you are by yourself. There’s no regret in that. That’s just the way it is..”
― Daniel Orozco, Orientation and Other Stories