Quotes by : Dan Chaon

The desire to remake that shrinking expanse of life they were still allotted, to make use of it, to fill....

You really romanticize the white-trash period of your life,' Rain once said to me, which I thought was....

People can find patterns in all kinds of random events. It's called apophenia. It's the tendency we humans....

I can't understand how people can settle for having just one life. I remember we were in English class....

Hesitantly, I touched the stump where my finger used to be. In my mind, something almost remembered itself,....

You know what you learn when you study the legal system? Poor people pass down damage the way rich people....

I guess," says Deagle, finally, "I'll just have a pack of Marlboro Lights. That's what I used to smoke....

Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of....

You look up for a moment and you're not sure which life is real. You've split yourself into so many honeycombed....

We leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us.....