Mirror image Quote by David Wroblewski

“Just when normal life felt almost possible--when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (prismatic spray of light through an icicle;…

— David Wroblewski

“He woke one morning tantalized by an idea: if he could catch the orchard trees motionless for one second -- for half of one…

— David Wroblewski

“You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and…

— David Wroblewski

When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and…

— David Wroblewski

She had learned, in her life, that time lived inside you. You are time, you breathe time. When she'd been young, she'd had an…

— David Wroblewski

“In her life, she'd been nourished and sustained by certain things, him being one of them, Trudy another, and Edgar, the third and most…

— David Wroblewski

“I think it's just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here, is heaven, hell and earth all at the same…

— David Wroblewski

“You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.”

— David Wroblewski

“Henry turned to give Edgar a look—a meaningful look—though Edgar couldn’t be sure exactly what its meaning was. It struck him again how there…

— David Wroblewski

“He had also been demonstrative and intelligent from the very beginning, his questions startlingly insightful. She would watch him absorb a new idea and…

— David Wroblewski

I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had about a 25-year career in software…

— David Wroblewski

“Edgar, do you actually think that how long a person grieves is a measure of how much they loved someone? There's no rule book…

— David Wroblewski