Jonathan Messinger Quotes

#1. How did it die?" he asked.
"Short circuit," I said. "Old and frayed wires."
He looked at me like I was senile.
"Could have been disease. Violence. Or, sometimes, things die because we don't love them enough.

Jonathan Messinger

#2. The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

Jonathan Messinger

#3. Reading the [The Verso Book of Dissent] is like encountering the best version of our angry selves.

Jonathan Messinger

#4. I don't think my moped could outrun a cheetah."
"Hun," Claire says. "There are more important things you need to outrun, and a moped isn't going to help you with any of those.

Jonathan Messinger

#5. Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

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#6. How could you love something so destructive?" I ask.
"Because this wolf doesn't care if your heart is whole or not," you say. "It tastes just the same.

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#7. To break the silence the old man said the first thing that came to his mind: Loneliness is a type of violence.

Jonathan Messinger