34 Quotes by Caleb Crain

Everyone likes to say they’re tolerant.

The odd thing was that he had hated to be part of any group in America. Maybe he had never been in a group large enough – a group so large that he could approach vanishing in it, which was a kind of freedom – or maybe he had never been in a group devoted to freedom itself.

In Rome the statues, in Paris the paintings, and in Prague the buildings suggest that pleasure can be an education.

Later, holding Milo’s hand in the dark, Jacob felt that it was only in recovering it that he learned what he had been in danger of losing. The touch of Milo’s hand seemed to remind him of parts of himself that he had already begun to forget about.

They sat talking naked so often and so long perhaps because they liked to be able to read the whole opalescent page of each other at once.

Everyday life continues during a love affair.

It was a mistake to think that in the new world they would be able to care in the old way. In the new world you had to find something of value and learn not to care for it. You had to learn how to sell it.

No radio, no telephone,” Melinda observed. “No mod cons whatsoever in Hloubetin, are there.”“We have a hamster,” Jacob said.“Not traditionally considered an amenity.

I just remembered. My hamster is loose.”“Is that a thing to say to a nice girl?