The Sorrow Proper Quotes

“For a long while they are silent, thinking about abstract things like control and what it means to love an institution that is defined by loss, because a library is such a space and their duty is to encourage the books to leave.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Sorrow Proper

“in no world is always ever exact”
― Lindsey Drager, The Sorrow Proper

“a finger pointing with particular aim too far from the goal in effect points at everything.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Sorrow Proper

“Procedure follows this law: It doesn't matter how much damage there is. If the right part fails, expect collapse.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Sorrow Proper

“That's the principle of progress, the notion that things will one day change. We must expect different results, otherwise the whole world becomes petrified.”
― Lindsey Drager, The Sorrow Proper

“If the institution of mathematics told a story . . . how would it end?”
― Lindsey Drager, The Sorrow Proper