Excavations Quotes

“The first story is told when the item is placed down for the last time—that is the truth. The second story is time. The third story is told when someone finds the item, and that is rarely the truth at all.”
― Kate Myers, Excavations

“Her fearlessness in the face of authority was the trait she was most proud of. It had gotten her nowhere in life, but she liked it about herself too much to let it go despite mounting evidence that some healthy fear might work wonders for her resume.”
― Kate Myers, Excavations

“And that’s exactly the point, isn’t it? To correct the record, that’s what she was doing. No matter how many years go by—five here, five thousand there—setting the good record straight is the only thing we endless streams of people on planet earth can do for each other.”
― Kate Myers, Excavations

“pooled in pockets of fat and flesh that hadn’t felt used in years, and her muscles were blissfully sore.”
― Kate Myers, Excavations

“School might be the only way to tie herself to a mast and ignore the siren songs that soundtracked her life. She felt a surprising flood of gratitude that it was him who heard her say it first.”
― Kate Myers, Excavations

“True irreverence was hard to find, and it just seemed so obviously practical; it felt like they’d finally met the only other logical person on the planet. They each tethered the other to worlds they were respectively afraid of participating in fully: Elise denied herself friends, Z denied herself mountains.”
― Kate Myers, Excavations

“Her pairings were never quite right, neither comfortable nor exciting enough to inspire her to dig in; she viewed them just as merciful breaks from the relentless current, like a fish latching its suckers onto a whale for the ocean ride.”
― Kate Myers, Excavations