Untitled ‘[T]he importance of having to identify with a character in a book is vastly overrated’ Brian Evenson, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Untitled ‘When I remember things it’s not just some kind of mathematical machine in my head. It is contaminated in terms of facts. It’s mixed with desires, with fears. Memory is such a fickle thing.’ – Erla Bolladottir, Out of Thin Air
Untitled ‘So this was hatred. It was great hatred, the great Seventies hatred.’ – Anna Burns, Milkman
Untitled ‘Everything affects and is affected by every other thing’. — Engels, ‘The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man’.
Untitled ‘Pink is not a colour, it is the bastard of triumphant red and guilty light; born of incest where hell and heaven have played their parts, it has remained the colour of shame.’ — Jean Ray, ‘La Terreur Rose’
Untitled ‘It happened that before you arrived here, all the dreams had been dreamed, and you had entered a dreamless territory.’ — Can Xue, ‘An Episode with no Foundation’.