Tom's Crossing Quotes

“Some say the universe bends toward Justice, but when it don't, stories mend the trajectory.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“Kalin couldn't say what unsettled him more: the now obvious deadness of his dear friend or that even in death the dead might still know fear.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“and no matter how well hidden, age always gathers its scars.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

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― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“So many names lost, or for so long misplaced that they became fictions, which is as good as forgotten. Though in the end what name isn’t a fiction? You think yours isn’t? Mine?”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing

“After all, there’s a long history of substitutin real terrain with confoundin squiggles on paper. Generals are often the worst offenders, from Troy to Thermopylae, Waterloo to Gettysburg, Ypres to Afghanistan. Vietnam, a country that ain’t much bigger than the state of California, presented on paper no more of a military endeavor than some afternoon picnic at Fort Sumter.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, Tom's Crossing