The New Existence Quotes

“Norman said, “Sometimes there are no winners and it’s all a wash,” mindful that anything said was enough, and at times, nothing was demanded save the presence of another.”
― Michael Collins, The New Existence

“He was suddenly glad now for the internet, for the impersonal expediency of how all matters of life and death could now be so negotiated, the disconnectedness of connectedness. All a real funeral would have revealed was the tacit reality that there had been nobody in his mother’s life for a very long time. She had opted for an insignificant departure, a literal dropping off the earth into the depths of the great lake, seeking the fathoms of her own grave, taking with her the argosy of her dreams, the air pocket of her retirement ending in the literal rising of a water line in the cab of her car. It fit her temperament, the self-contained ending, the tight circle of her own thoughts and ideas, her immense capacity to withhold opinions, to stay in the orbit of her own existence.”
― Michael Collins, The New Existence