Us Fools Quotes

“Whatever else may perish and disappear, what lies here is steadfast. Here one might say to those sliding lights, those fumbling airs that breathe and bend over the bed itself, here you can neither touch nor destroy. Upon which, wearily, ghostly, as if they had feather-light fingers and the light persistency of feathers, they would look, once, on the shut eyes, and the loosely clasping fingers, and fold their garments wearily and disappear.”
― Nora Lange, Us Fools

“At the underwhelming Thanksgiving table, my sister stood up and said she felt like a miscalculation. Worse, like the latest season of a sitcom that had petered out seasons ago—everyone knew the show was intolerable but watched anyway. If that wasn’t a metaphor for the news in America, she said, then what was.”
― Nora Lange, Us Fools

“I consumed America as much as America consumed me. I would be taking every substance with me to the grave, where no doubt I would continue to be a poison. But I would be educated by America's leading institutions.”
― Nora Lange, Us Fools

“These things that at first glance appear to be trash, might one day be the map we find ourselves needing.”
― Nora Lange, Us Fools

“He was a misplaced stone looking for a river,”
― Nora Lange, Us Fools