A Town of Empty Rooms Quotes

“They laughed, carefully; it was straining, this proving one’s humanity to one another.”
― Karen E. Bender, A Town of Empty Rooms

“Forrest Sanders loved children in the showy way people do when they are trying to hide some moral or emotional deficiencies in themselves.”
― Karen E. Bender, A Town of Empty Rooms

“His sorrow floated through the room, disembodied; he did not appear to feel it, but she was acutely aware of its weight.”
― Karen E. Bender, A Town of Empty Rooms

“Ryan’s mother was a blankly cheerful woman whose main project seemed to be maintaining silence;”
― Karen E. Bender, A Town of Empty Rooms

“It was as though each morning over breakfast Zeb was rehearsing all the sadness he would feel in his life.”
― Karen E. Bender, A Town of Empty Rooms

“We like you to use black ink,” said the secretary. “The copier can read it better.” She said it wearily, as though her travails with the copier were a long and arduous romance in which she had ruefully adopted the role of appeaser.”
― Karen E. Bender, A Town of Empty Rooms