Quotes by : James Sallis

Drinking also maroons you without provisions on the island of self. Like most other promises it makes,....

We can make up for our actions. But for our inactions, what we fail to do ...

I was coming up on a cross street when a man wearing a filthy suit stepped out from around the corner....

Mostly what you lose with time, in memory, is the specificity of things, their exact sequence. It all....

What are any of our lives but the shapes we force them into. Memory doesn't come to us of its own; we....

This is what people are talking about when they use words like grace.That moment, that morning, came....

Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his....

Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?""The company of a friend, I think.""Always a cheap....

What’d you need?""Desuetude.""Reading again, are we? Could be dangerous. It means to become unaccustomed....

The dam of my eyes broke, and tears flooded the land.

Rina’s always claimed that I expect too little from life,” Standard said.“Then at least you’ll....