“ I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class and we were talking about that poem by - that one guy. David Frost. 'Two roads diverged in a yell… Dan Chaon
“ I never understood why people from the 1980s thought there would be flying cars. It just seemed really dangerous and impractical to me, but they all talked about it, so it must have been a thing. Mean… Dan Chaon
“ I've been talking to myself a lot lately. I don't know what that's about, but my mother was the same way. She hated to make small talk with other people, but get her into a conversation with herself a… Dan Chaon
“ We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years Dan Chaon
“ It had occurred to him that if the undead don't realize that they are dead, he might easily be one of them himself. Dan Chaon
“ Your Mom's Car. Think about that. Try to wrap your brain around the supernatural and spiritual implications that the name bears down you. Your Mom's Car, holding its hand out straight, fingers curled,… Dan Chaon
“ The true terror Jonah thought the true mystery of life was not that we are all going to die but that we were all born that we were all once little babies like this unknowing and slowly reeling in the… Dan Chaon
“ The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill it up with possibility. Oh please: one more transformation. Dan Chaon
“ You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was a little hurtful but perhaps true. Dan Chaon
“ It’s very hard — weirdly hard — to clear your mind of all that crap so that you can just sit down and write and find that place where you’re just involved and enjoying the imaginary place you’ve disco… Dan Chaon
“ Outside, the sleet had gotten thicker. You could hear it pebbling against the large glass windows, you could see it swirling wildly through the spotlights of street lamps. It was the kind of night whe… Dan Chaon
“ You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed parts that they barely notice each other---all of them pacing, concurrently, parallel st… Dan Chaon
“ People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans have to find meaning in disconnected information. Dan Chaon
“ Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house to a wooden pole, and some fat birds sitting together on the wires,… Dan Chaon
“ There is a stage you reach, Deagle thinks, a time somewhere in early middle age, when your past ceases to be about yourself. Your connection to your former life is like a dream or delirium, and that p… Dan Chaon
“ I guess," says Deagle, finally, "I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke when I was human. Dan Chaon
“ You could say that they were sweet, or you could say that they were something out of a horror movie. Dan Chaon
“ There is your car and the open road, the fabled lure of random adventure. You stand at the verge, and you could become anything. Your future shifts and warps with your smallest step, your shitty littl… Dan Chaon
“ You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people pass down an inheritance. Dan Chaon
