The Night Inspector Quotes

“No matter his joking, I thought, this was a man as given to the miseries as I was. You could look into my dead face and find my living eyes. In his case, the life and death were reversed, and the flesh of his face was living ground, while his eyes were little monuments to lifelessness buried therein.”
― Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector

“We live in several moments, several places, at once.”
― Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector

“It is the kind of moment life gives us when it laughs. It is choosing without choice. A rich meagerness, that.”
― Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector

“....he knew that he'd run into his destiny as a man in the dark walks into a wall.”
― Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector