My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share
Treasure nothing, be willing to throw out anything. The story you just wrote that you are proud of should not be coddled and worshipped.… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
Wolf in White Van is beautiful, enigmatic, and sad, and like every other brilliant thing John Darnielle has ever done, it seems to come… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“She had the scattered feeling she always got when events conspired to mess things up, and nothing exhausted and frustrated her more than a… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“What she wanted was really two things: to be elsewhere, and to be somebody else. Or at least a version of herself that had… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“This was not the state of mind I was accustomed to, at the outset of an expedition. But one does not fight the battles… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
“At least things fucking happen in those books, she thought: it's not just people lying in bed and thinking about their fucking feelings .” — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
