Power is knowing that you can do whatever you want, and not one person can stop you.
Moses Randolph
When someone isn’t seen for what they truly are, that’s a very dangerous thing.
Paul Randolph
2Okay, listen. I got something wrong with me. That’s the first thing to know. I twitch and shout a lot. It makes me look like a damn freak show. But inside my head is an even bigger mess. I can’t stop twisting things around, words and sounds especially. I have to keep playing with them until they come out right.
Lionel Essrog
He’s the one who taught me how to use my head, turn it into a strength. He gave me a place in this crappy world, until I screwed up.
Lionel Essrog
Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.
How strange it began to seem that cars have bodies that never are supposed to touch, a disaster if they do.
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
The wind was picking up off the ocean now and the whole coastal scene had a bleak, abandoned look, as though Maine in November really belonged to the ragged gulls who wheeled over the sun.