Quote by Erika Swyler

“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.”

— Erika Swyler

“If it's possible to have a reading hangover, I have one.”

— Erika Swyler

“If it's possible to grind coffee sadly, this is what she's doing.”

— Erika Swyler

“The dirty secret about history is how much of it is conjecture.”

— Erika Swyler

“To think of the time I spend procuring books... How fitting: a book procured me. Utterly fantastic...”

— Erika Swyler

“The roof is rotting. This is something I should have known to fix years ago, should have known needed maintaining, but no one told…

— Erika Swyler

“The trouble with Evangeline started long before Amos saw her in a lightening field. The trouble was that she’d been born.”

— Erika Swyler

“I fucked your daughter. Go ahead and fix my goddamned house.”

— Erika Swyler

“She knows that her name will find its way into his speculations. So will his. Because there are things you do for people you've…

— Erika Swyler

“I turn on the computer to do a cursory search for Ryzhkova. The name pings back thousands of results. Shit. Of course it would…

— Erika Swyler

“He did not know what it meant to lie or that soon he would lie to the very woman teaching him the art of…

— Erika Swyler