“ ...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course. Adam Haslett
“ ...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...It was untrue, of course. Adam Haslett
“ It struck me then, for the first time, how unethical anxiety is, how it voids the reality of other people by conscripting them as palliatives for your own fear. Adam Haslett
“ What do you fear when you fear everything? Time passing and not passing. Death and life. I could say my lungs never filled with enough air, no matter how many puffs of my inhaler I took. Or that my th… Adam Haslett
“ A few months ago, a fog blinded me, thicker than ever before. I slept in the monster’s arms. I felt its breath on my neck, its scaled stomach rising and falling against my back, its head and face invi… Adam Haslett
“ You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just negate that with sentimentality. With the idea of some indomitable spirit. That's a… Adam Haslett
“ Kind of gay? I wanted to say. Do you have any notion how many homosexuals sweated their ass off on the dance floor to make this soaring bit of derivative trash possible? How many died of AIDS, OD'd, o… Adam Haslett
“ Sound systems are what turn cars into escape vehicles, even if you've got nowhere to go. Adam Haslett
