"Falling Man" Quotes
A 9/11 survivor struggles to find meaning and connection in the aftermath of the attacks.
fiction | 246 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The mind was a machine, the body a device, and the spirit a function of the body.
It was not a performance. It was what he was.
It is the force of the world, the force of chaos and time.
The visible world was a buffer, a magnification, a deepening of the real world, the world of the mind.
The beauty of the world was the fixed margins of the visible world.
He was a man who had come to terms with the fact that the world was not a rational or a predictable place.
He had the sense that he was falling, he had been falling for weeks.
He was the one who fell, and he fell with the first people, and he fell alone.
The world was a place of random events, a place of chance and circumstance.
There was a sense in which he felt he was falling into the world, that the world was a place to fall into.
