“He alone can return to Earth to try to do something, only to find that all he can do is try to know what happened.” — 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
“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
“... 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
“And isn't this hard when we ourselves are always at the beginning of ourselves?” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share
“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
“And what is your story? someone interrupts. What did you do to end up in this endless community of minds?” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share
“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
“I am alone, I am alone, but not lonely, not lonely for people, it seems.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
