Ampersand Revisited Quotes

“Every night, just before you fall asleep, other voices start talking amongst themselves in the monochrome waters at the deep end of your brain…”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

“You’re not certain, but you suspect that most other people’s evenings are not ending in tears. Outside the window, iced branches click emptily in the wind…”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

“Long, intense silences follow, which you endure by staring out the window at a lawn so deeply green it looks botanically assassinated…”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

“The art of staying alive when the story darkens with the dusk of plot means being too much of a bother…”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

“I’d like to walk again in her weather, in the dark through the fog, / its gray damage // laid down all over town…”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

“Your hair freezes, making you shiver presciently like the wise child in the Brothers Grimm…”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

“The low, afternoon light solders the sliding glass door into a slab of gold circuitry you step through...”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

“Your sheets are stark parchment, lit by a burning telegram that gives off the incense of human hair…”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

“These are latter days. You regard the writ of frost on the window pane as a blueprint for something yet to come. Something severe & detailed…”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited

“When you finally answer his calls, & he asks what you’ve been doing, you reply, Thinking about the Sumerians, because you don’t want to seem lazy…”
― Simeon Berry, Ampersand Revisited