My goal in life is to become an adjective.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

Lux’s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid t’s and b’s of her mother’s signature and then, to distinguish her own handwriting, penning her signature, Lux Lisbon, below, the two beseeching L’s reaching out for each other over the ditch of the u and barbed-wire x.

I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.

our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a wall, a room dim at noon, and the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.