In every neck of the woods people walked in the imagination of doomsayers and talked the language of extinction. (p5) The Swan Book (2013)
People tell stories all the time: the stories they want told, where any story could be changed or warped this way or that. (p84) The Swan Book (2013)
The girl convinced herself that only the mad people in the world would tell you the truth when madness was the truth, when the truth itself was mad. (p64) The Swan Book (2013)
The important public officials, passionately depicting themselves as unified people, were obsessed with imagination, narrow though it was in their minds. Well! Aesthetics was all. (p265) The Swan Book (2013)