“ I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank? A.M. Homes
“ He laid there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew no one, was not a part of anyone's life. He'd so… A.M. Homes
“ Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away? A.M. Homes
“ Suddenly, she doesn't want to die. She has no real reason not to, no sudden revelation, except that it's equally pointless to die as not to die. Why doesn't she die? She lives because she's meant to l… A.M. Homes
“ I believe in staying open to possibility. What is the point of not believing, closing the door? Just leave it open, see what comes in. A.M. Homes
“ I liked the fact she understood how we all have little secret habits that seem normal enough to us, but which we know better than to mention out loud. A.M. Homes
“ Can I ask you, what is your relationship to God?Limited, I say. Limited with the exception of spontaneous prayer in times of distress. A.M. Homes
“ He lay there realizing how thoroughly he'd removed himself from the world or obligations, how stupidly independent he'd become: he needed no one, knew no one, was not a part of anyone's life. He'd so… A.M. Homes
“ What does ‘stuck’ mean? It means I should make some big decision, I should do some enormous thing. And I can’t do anything. I can’t stand my life, and I can’t change it. Maybe it’s not an enormous thi… A.M. Homes
“ Lillian comes out of the kitchen carrying an artefact, the blue metal tin marked Danish Butter Cookies that if I didn't know better I would swear had been in the family for generations - when the Jews… A.M. Homes
“ Alice, I hand you her name gently, suggesting that if you hold it, carefully as I do, pressed close to the heart, you might at the end of this understand how confusing the beating of two such similar… A.M. Homes
“ I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's family name - she is in effect lost, evaporated from a… A.M. Homes
“ Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our suffering? What is its meaning? Begin by touching it, by coming close to it, accepting it: Hello, suff… A.M. Homes
“ We’re all good when we want to be, otherwise we’re fucking animals. There’s no VIP room in reality, and there is no reality in this city. You can’t Google the answers. People talke about being on the… A.M. Homes
“ For the first time, I understand that, as much as one might desire change, one has to be willing to take a risk, to free-fall, to fail, and that you've got to let go of the past. A.M. Homes
“ You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are—start there. A.M. Homes
“ There is a world out there, so new, so random and disassociated that it puts us all in danger. We talk online, we ‘friend’ each other when we don’t know who we are really talking to – we fuck stranger… A.M. Homes
