“... but then the rain came down and rained, heavier on the downswing than the up, and hanging on to my seat seeing for the first time that we only think we're asleep but one's always awake, especially dreaming.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“... people hasten to get their train, and Lar's humming of course at the premise that beyond this gone-to-pieces capability they will put themselves… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“I see you moving and me here. Ever-moving. But sometimes moving in one place without ever leaving, yet knowing you could leave.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“... or a Buenos Aires cab's exhaust pipe? An exhaust pipe which James Mayn was once invited to screw, having asked a man on… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“And isn't this hard when we ourselves are always at the beginning of ourselves?” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“And I got to stop thinking there's what was and what will be, and start thinking there's a story in between.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“And what is your story? someone interrupts. What did you do to end up in this endless community of minds?” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Special reincarnation? he said. She sighed. Why did people want to complicate things by coming back twenty years later for a second, third chance?” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“I am alone, I am alone, but not lonely, not lonely for people, it seems.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Do you ever feel,' she wonders, 'that we fit into a large life that doesn't know us but--hold us? And that this is better… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“I sat reading from first thing in the morning till the middle of the afternoon. I used to get a phone call twice a… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Above his olive-skinned neck a Low Dark Fade they call it at the barber's school where I go for a $4.99 haircut and an experience.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
