Union Atlantic Quotes

“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the places time ran over”
― Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic

“Boredom is easy. Which is why sadness hides there so readily. But don’t be fooled for long. Dying of boredom. There’s reason behind that idiom. It’ll kill you sure enough.”
― Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic

“Her parents were religious people who never renounced their obligation to love their daughter or their obligation to be ashamed.”
― Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic

“This was the kind of Business Roundtable chump who spent his lunchtime decrying government intrusion and now found himself on a cell phone in the middle of the night pleading with the government to save him. In”
― Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic

“A shield. That’s what the memories were, the ones that had risen in her with such force of late. A barricade thrown up against the depredations of the present.”
― Adam Haslett, Union Atlantic