Lost Places Quotes

“There was a fir tree that had fallen across the water like a bad-idea bridge. They examined the tangled, tentacular roots and everything that had upended with them, imagining what it was like to be torn from your place in a larger whole.”
― Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places

“greek chorus back for an encore of their greatest hit, “i told you so.”—”
― Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places

“I felt a sudden kinship with him; not any presumption he knew my life or I knew his, but a sense we both were playing roles that depended on convincing everyone around us of how we were exactly where we belonged.”
― Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places

“Why We Jump We jump because we have to. We jump because we can. We jump because we dare ourselves. We jump because we’re lonely. We jump because we want to be alone. We jump because once you’re up there’s really no other good way down. We jump because otherwise we’ll never do anything that matters. We jump because we want to fly, just for a moment. We jump because everything is better afterward: beer, breathing, sandwiches, sex. We jump because the water is clear and deep. We jump because there are so few things in life that can’t be explained away. We jump because we want to know what happens when the pond takes somebody. We jump because we don’t want that somebody to be us, or maybe we do. We jump because otherwise we will never know who we are. We jump because we want to know what else there is to be. We jump because we don’t want to be the kind of person who wouldn’t. We jump because each of us knows we are the invincible center of the world. We jump because we want to be We jump because”
― Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places

“We don’t need to list everyone. They were all in the room. Whoever it is you think is missing, fill in the name and they’ll have been there. You were there too, even if you don’t remember it. The room was hot but not too hot, the music loud but not too loud.”
― Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places

“Would you mind calling up a little later after the light goes?”
—Georgia O’Keeffe.”
― Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places

“André Breton (Not a Hotel) In 1924, the poet André Breton wrote in the first Surrealist manifesto that he believed “in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”
― Sarah Pinsker, Lost Places