The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016 Quotes

“You know why we’ll never give up cars—because riding in cars at night is so beautiful, it’s telling stories in a cave with the darkness kept out, the dash lights for the embers of the fire.”
― Laura Furman, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016

“My father, who during their courtship was thrilled to discover my mother’s love for the color red, had proposed to her with a lab-created ruby. In this final year before meeting Joaquin, my mother could no longer stand to look at her left hand, seeing only a tiny traffic light blinking there, unnaturally pink-red, reminding her that everything had stopped.”
― Laura Furman, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016

“Even more terrifying is the decision to allow the fire to continue smoldering, because the brighter you let it get, the more terrible the darkness should you ever let it out.”
― Laura Furman, The O. Henry Prize Stories 2016