“You got a little bit famous. Even a little bit of fame can mess with your head. It’s a cognitive disease, you know, fame? It used to only be for royalty and we know what they’re like. I’m not much… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“You know you're having a seriously fucked-up day when ontology becomes a life-or-death proposition” — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“The truth is, there are no alternate realities. At least not the way Penny describes them. Maybe an infinite multiverse is born from every… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“When you’re young, you think of your parents with the simplest adjectives. As you get older, you add more adjectives and notice some of… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“They were married within a year and slotted themselves into their respective lifelong roles—my father was the lighthouse, my mother the keeper who wound… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“When you jump off a cliff, falling can look a whole lot like flying, for a while anyway.” — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“You got a little bit famous. Even a little bit of fame can mess with your head. It’s a cognitive disease, you know, fame?… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“You keep working. You keep trying. You keep failing. Until one day in the distant future, that for me is the distant past, the… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and no she's gone.” — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“When you invent the car, you also invent the car accident. When you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash.” — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“But there was something else, hard to pin down exactly, a charge—this magnetic pheromonal buzz that hung between us like a spider’s web, generally… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“The brain is a soupy lightning storm swirling and crackling in three pounds of wet meat. Do” — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“But the world feels too big and the words feel too small, and turning the slushy tangle of memories into clean lines of text… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
“When someone dies they get very cold and very still. That probably sounds obvious, but when it’s your mother it doesn’t feel obvious—it feels… — Elan Mastai Copy Share Image
