Lost in Arcadia Quotes

“lot of problems, it turns out, don’t really have solutions. You can ignore them or rearrange them a bit, you can rename them or redefine them or sometimes even redistribute them, but you can’t actually get rid of them. Not really. Once a glass falls and shatters, even though all the physical pieces are still there, each crystalline shard easily accessible, you still can’t reassemble the original glass. Eventually you have to confront the fact that many things only work in one direction. That’s”
― Sean Gandert, Lost in Arcadia

“Devon’s room wasn’t heavily decorated. Teenagers on television always seemed to have elaborate setups, whole worlds of music and rebellion surrounding their beds in a swirl of safe anarchy, but the only kids who decorated like that grew up to be set designers.”
― Sean Gandert, Lost in Arcadia

“I started adjusting to a daily three-hour sleep schedule when I was in middle school,” McTeague says, “and sometimes I have trouble figuring out how everyone else makes do with less than a twenty-hour day. How do they find time in their lives for, you know, living?”
― Sean Gandert, Lost in Arcadia