“There is no future. It's sentiment about what might have been.” — Joseph McElroy Future 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
“It was as if suddenly, looking into the revealed distance, we could think.” — 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
“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
“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
“Life's in parts, and some go together and some don't, and some incongruously don't, and the whole scheme is better left to… — Joseph McElroy Life Copy Share Image
“Isn't there more important things than being brief, Jim?, if you're still there. So brief there is only everything to remember.” — Joseph McElroy Important things 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 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… — Joseph McElroy Fitness 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… — 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 Copy Share Image
“And when she said, What do you want to be when you grow up? some kid said, A good burglar, and we… — 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… — Joseph McElroy Phone call Copy Share Image
“Joy could be romantic, and she knew he was too, though she played to the other side of him, the part that… — Joseph McElroy Joy Copy Share Image
“When the phone comes up in his hand, he has thought out this death of his ahead of time all by himself.… — Joseph McElroy 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
“Did some deaths go on hurting? were there winds below the sea that blew as fast as all other winds but blew… — Joseph McElroy Death Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“The void will calm things down. Speaks through you like a whole thing of force and membrane neither yet full-grown. But in… — Joseph McElroy Time Copy Share Image
“... between the Great Swirl and the Two Screen, between the back-and-forth and the endless curve that will come of it--as between… — Joseph McElroy History 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
“If you can describe something, you must take responsability for it.” — Joseph McElroy Responsibility Copy Share Image
“You don't have to have a reason if you have this need.” — Joseph McElroy Intelligence Copy Share Image
“I am alone, I am alone, but not lonely, not lonely for people, it seems.” — Joseph McElroy Loneliness 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… — Joseph McElroy Barber 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 Earth Copy Share Image
“She arched and farted like Mona Lisa if you really looked at her and for good fruitarian measure.” — Joseph McElroy Copy Share Image
