“The strangeness of time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.”— Joyce Carol Oates, amazon.com
“He was terribly aware of the forces that brought people together and split them apart, and he wondered what his daughter was doing, far across the city; if she was still telling the story of a girl caught between the tidal pull of the moon and of the world. Or if she had already moved on.”— E. K. Ota, narrativemagazine.com