“And in this carpeted room where she now got a very odd division of temperature between outside and inside like swallowing ice… — Joseph McElroy Ice cream Copy Share Image
“Everything got an explanation: the difference is you pick some things to not explain.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“If poets have to be in some way criminals, she thinks, nowadays criminals could try being poets.” — Joseph McElroy Crime Copy Share Image
“We found we counted on our bodies to tell us even what words we were to know. Until we learned too late… — Joseph McElroy Time Copy Share Image
“Nobody kids around with Smitty lately, but he's got his tapes with guys sharing their thoughts and feelings, so you know that… — Joseph McElroy Death Copy Share Image
“It was as if suddenly, looking into the revealed distance, we could think.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“Words made you laugh and history fell apart into tales and isolated mysteries threatening to be trivial.” — Joseph McElroy History Copy Share Image
“The void was not just a regular void and empty but was full of all that we did not expect of ourselves.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“He's seeing things, he's a victim of last night, last year, of what he's read or been told; and he's sick of… — Joseph McElroy Last night Copy Share Image
“We remember what's going on. Already remember what's been here with us so long we had the time to see but now… — Joseph McElroy Time Copy Share Image
“There is no future. It's sentiment about what might have been.” — Joseph McElroy Time Copy Share Image
“If you can describe something, you must take responsability for it.” — Joseph McElroy Responsibility Copy Share Image
“I have in my head things I may not have exactly seen, just as you who read this have me.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“We suffer alone. We are not alone. There's life elsewhere. We have each other. Till death do us part.” — Joseph McElroy Death Copy Share Image
“Yet the pain just isn't quite here, you know? That is, the pain in the sense of a weight of needing to… — Joseph McElroy Pain Copy Share Image
“At this time in his life some things unsaid hurt. But hadn't hurt less when they got said.” — Joseph McElroy Life Copy Share Image
“When two or more survivors, she said, were gathered together, they could breathe their mutual auras in and out to set up… — Joseph McElroy Nature Copy Share Image
“My personal view is that there are many gods, and when we organize and rank them, we go too far, we ask… — Joseph McElroy Too far Copy Share Image
“He alone can return to Earth to try to do something, only to find that all he can do is try to… — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
“You don't have to have a reason if you have this need.” — Joseph McElroy Intelligence Copy Share Image
“... but then the rain came down and rained, heavier on the downswing than the up, and hanging on to my seat… — Joseph McElroy First time Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's what we find out, Larry, what we're always finding out, that every little thing matters.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image