Quotes by : Kevin Brockmeier

Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every....

Dreaming was easier than screaming, and screaming was easier than worrying, and worrying was easier than....

[I]f he had to guess, he would say that the reason he doesn't want to loan the book out, to Ethan or....

Occasionally, in the stillness of a taxi or an airplane, she would catalog the pleasures she had lost.....

The game had to be played the same way every day or the pieces would fall to the floor, the board would....

The truth is he spends thirty minutes of every hour suspecting he has missed some essential clue about....

For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting....

You remember having friends who used to lampoon the world so effortlessly, crouching at the verge of....

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many....