"Angle of Repose" Quotes
fiction | 482 pages | Published in 2000
Quotes
Home is where you can say anything you please, because nobody pays any attention to you anyway.
Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms.
What innocent creatures we once were, I thought; what untroubled pleasure we took in each other's company.
Remember that justice is only for men, and a woman's voice follows silence just a little too quickly.
I live in my own little world, where the columbines bloom and the bridge lights up at night.
The days are as big as apples, at least during the morning. Then shadows grow and everything is gristle and concrete.
The past perceived is no longer the past; it has become a new slice of time that belongs to me.
In another country I might have been a genius.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon.
The trouble with a calculated risk is that there isn't one.