“And the days are not full enoughAnd the nights are not full enoughAnd life slips by like a field mouseNot shaking the grass”

“Go down any road far enoughand you'll come to a slaughterhouse,but keep going and you'll reach the sea.”

“The grass is full of ghost to-night.' 'The whole campus is alive with them.”

“Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night, they’re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things”

“She bought seeds and raided nurseries and mulched and composted and spent full days with her hands full of earth, coaxing life our of the dry, dull grass my father had spent years pushing a mower over.”

“I've been toldthat people in the armydo more by 7:00 amthan I doin an entire dayBut if I wakeat 6:59 amand turn to youto trace the outline of your lipswith mineI will have done enoughand killed no onein the process.”