Room Temperature Quotes

“...in repairing the object you really ended up loving it more, because you now knew its eagerness to be reassembled, and in running a fingertip over its surface you alone could feel its many cracks - a bond stronger than mere possession.”
― Nicholson Baker, Room Temperature

“And yet in my experience a certain amount of daily maintenance work on the interior of the nose was necessary, physically necessary, simply to avoid panicky feelings of claustrophobia, especially in the dry winter months. Those high hardened ridges had to be removed.”
― Nicholson Baker, Room Temperature