Tumble Home Quotes

“I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!”
― Amy Hempel, Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

“I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.”
― Amy Hempel, Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

“I am so suggestible. When Chatty asks if I am hungry, I say, "I could be." I would try to become the woman you wanted without even knowing I was trying. As it is, I am barely the woman I am.”
― Amy Hempel, Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories

“For peace of mind I will lie about any thing at any time.”
― Amy Hempel, Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories