Bluebottle Quotes

“What are any of our lives but the shapes we force them into. Memory doesn't come to us of its own; we go after it, pull it into sunlight and make of it what we need, what we're driven towards, what we imagine, changing the world again and again with each new quarry, each descent, each morning.”
― James Sallis, Bluebottle

“Father, the dark moths crouch at the sills of the earth, waiting.”
― James Sallis, Bluebottle

“I never found out exactly what it was that had hurt my friend so–something working in him a long time, that finally found purchase. In future years I'd come to recognize similar things scrabbling for footholds within myself. They were already there, of course, even then. Sometimes at night I heard them breathing.”
― James Sallis, Bluebottle