‘ [T]he bizarre death drive of the Republican party was somehow there in his [Lindsey Graham’s] big, blue eyes, in that vacant stare that evoked both the deer in the headlights and the headlights themselves.’
— Elizabeth Schambelan, ‘Eclipse of the Sun’

‘Certain thinkers are so original in their purpose that the critical question is not so much whether the reader stands in accord with the thinking, but whether she or he has genuinely encountered, absorbed, and been transformed by the intellectual and existential challenge that the thinking incites. One need not be wholly convinced or converted to receive the untold benefit of the thinking proposed.’
— Lissa McCullough, ‘Introduction to D.G. Leahy’

A puddle moving across the floor when it was not watched.

‘[O]ne of those half-crazed savants who gets in your head, who you can’t stop thinking about’.
Natalie Wynn, ‘The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling’

‘The basic problem is that if God exists, what is the point of literature? And if He doesn’t exist, what is the point of literature?’
Eugène Ionesco

‘[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

‘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

‘So this was hatred. It was great hatred, the great Seventies hatred.’
– Anna Burns, Milkman

‘Everything affects and is affected by every other thing’.

— Engels, ‘The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man’.