“Cruel it seems. Let people get fond of each other: lure them on. Then tear asunder. Death.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“You go on. You set one foot in front of the other and if a thin voice cries out somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear and keep going.”— Geraldine Brooks, goodreads.com
“The Rapture is obviously a cataclysmic event. But I started realizing it was a metaphor for getting older, for mortality, and living with mortality. It’s really powerful. We all basically live in a world that we define by the people who have disappeared.”— Tom Perrotta, amazon.com
“And thus the project of self-realization is thrown back on the experience of self-loss from it springs.”— Thomas Harrison, amazon.com