34 Quotes by Caleb Crain

And suddenly it was all too much for him. He felt sad and misplaced, with the abrupt, overwhelming, dizzying sadness that comes over people in countries not their own, which has none of the richness of feeling that usually comes with sadness but is rather a kind of exhaustion.

But what are they?” Annie asked.“An omphalos, probably,” said Jacob.“A what, dear?” Melinda asked.“A bellybutton of the world.”“I didn’t know it had one.

To find the spirit of change—was that it?—after the change had happened.

Would you fancy a shag?”“Is that like a scrum?”“It could be.

It sounds disgusting, in my opinion, ‘stuffing,’” she continued. “I’d never heard of it before Rafe told me. To put your fingers inside a raw bird. It’s the sort of thing they did on the frontier, isn’t it.

They came for the freedom, they stayed for the McNuggets.

Like capitalism,” Carl suggested. “’We’ll give you so much pleasure, you’ll never want to try another socioeconomic system.