“Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.”
“It feels as though we’re going in slow motion. I think we’ll never get away. But eventually the Ferris wheel is far enough away that it could be a moving constellation.”
“My world speeds up. After years of moving along in slow motion, I am suddenly surging through the moments. He touches me, and like flame to dry grass, I am consumed.”
“Before she got here everything had stalled inside me, and every morning I was just moving toward nighttime.”
“When I say "work" I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.”
“A fish called Gilbert. But I just call him Gil to save some breath, so I can spend more time underwater petting him like I used to do to grandpa before he drowned.”