Nightswimming Quotes

“If I had a wish it would be this: that Google maps could take me, not to just anywhere on the planet, but to anywhere in time.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“I doubt I would use the word ‘casualty’. There is nothing casual about killing.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“At that moment when John Lennon settled his voice on the back of a dove and released it to the world, could he have possibly imagined that all these years later, I would be here in my office imagining us imagining him?”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“Why doesn’t anyone go to the moon anymore? What happened to our optimism?”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“How can growing up really be about falling down?”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“I’ve always felt sorry for Mike Collins, driving all the way to the moon but not allowed out of the car to look around.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming

“As everybody knows, a humungous thing happened on Sunday, July 20th, 1969, at exactly 4:17:41 E.D.T. The 'Eagle' has landed. Bingo. Just like that. Man became an alien.”
― Janet Turpin Myers, Nightswimming