The Editor Quotes

“Hard truths can drive people apart. But great art can bring them back together.”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“The way she says it lifts a burdensome weight off of me, one I’ve worn so long it had become like a second skin, and I know in that moment that I am her boy again.”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“If they grow up to be all right, that is our vengeance on the world.”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“There is still so much hurt. The past is a funny thing.” “It has such power over us. Such sway.” “It’s wily. The past morphs and changes even though, in theory, it should be set in stone.”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“like Steinbeck, by the subtle differences in meaning words can have, in this case the Hebrew word Timshel, which, while thought to have meant thou shall, when retranslated in Steinbeck’s novel by Chinese scholars comes to mean thou mayest. In that slight difference—destiny vs. free will—exists the fate of all mankind.”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“I think we ache for the certainty of our past, perhaps, more so than the goodness of it. Writers open themselves to many perspectives, they put themselves in their characters’ shoes. It muddies your image of things. Much easier to see the past through a single lens, but it’s never the whole story, is it.”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“Not to say Daniel doesn’t do his best to prop up my self-esteem, but he’s obliged to; the return date on me has long since passed and he doesn’t have a receipt.”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“Did you know Corn Flakes were invented to cure masturbation?”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“RadioShack”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“Be like Fred Astaire.” “Romance Ginger Rogers?” I holler, confused. Jackie pokes her head back into the dining room and raps her knuckles gently on the doorway. “Don’t let the hard work show.”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor

“I'd like to fall in love again.”
― Steven Rowley, The Editor