“What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“It was one of those youthful promises that you make to yourself and keep long after you stop recognizing what you are… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“...even Michael, who never stopped trying to want what we wanted for him. How could he? We're not individuals. We're haunted by… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off. — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
You have to expose part of yourself to create a character deep enough for readers to care about. You try not to because it's… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“Anywhere people lived memory collected like sediment on the bed of a river, dropping from the flow of time to become fixed in the… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“I'm going to say this once,' he said, 'so you had better listen. You're twelve years old and you have a lot of ideas… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“Everyone has nightmares. They're tough sometimes. You wake up and you get on with things. That's just how it is.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“I knew Michael had to be right about the argument that would come later because Mom didn’t say anything about us being gone or… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“He experienced a familiar comfort being in the presence of another person's unknowable pain. More than any landscape, this place felt like home.” — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
If the history of the American sentence were a John Ford movie, its second act would conclude with the young Ernest Hemingway walking into… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never filled with… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
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