The Wallcreeper
Nell Zink
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I wanted to hear my own whispers in the next room and know that I was thinking of me.”
“She was young the way an actual young person is young.”
“I felt like the Empress Theodora. Can I get more orifices? I thought. Is that what she meant in the Historia Arcana—not that three isn’t enough, but that the three on offer aren’t enough to sustain a marriage?”
“As I was to learn, reproductive urges will serve as an alibi for just about anything.”
“I saw that I had followed the chief guiding principle of the petty bourgeoisie in modernity and made a virtue of necessity in telling myself my husband was a good lover.”
“She simply knew she was about to lose something valuable, and like anybody else, she wanted to take the next logical step to make it her own: She wanted to fuck it.”
“People talk a lot about midlife crisis, the momentary stress that arises when you finally slack off. The sublime flash of greenish light as the curtain of the sanctuary rips, when poets start reviewing books and programmers take jobs in quality control.”
“(why exactly twenty-somethings are considered so vital to protest movements, I never figured out, seeing as how they never vote and have no money)”
“then decided maybe something was wrong with Sundays. He tried Saturday and saw about two thousand”
“Twee,” the wallcreeper remarked. “Twee!”
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Book Keywords:
reality, disappointment, reflections, dreams, orifices, empress-theodora, midlife-crisis, reproductive-urges, detours
