30 Quotes by Joseph McElroy

We remember what’s going on. Already remember what’s been here with us so long we had the time to see but now seem to have been waiting to remember. For who are we not to? Yet give ourselves permission also to forget.

He alone can return to Earth to try to do something, only to find that all he can do is try to know what happened.

Everything got an explanation: the difference is you pick some things to not explain.

It is through each other that we can see.

The Void is the nothing you may assume about your future.

When two or more survivors, she said, were gathered together, they could breathe their mutual auras in and out to set up flows of rapidly spreading charges that balance out the life of the air and reduce the tension, madness, and violent crime caused like lightening by an imbalance between earth and heaven.

Isn’t there more important things than being brief, Jim?, if you’re still there. So brief there is only everything to remember.

Life’s in parts, and some go together and some don’t, and some incongruously don’t, and the whole scheme is better left to itself.

He’s seeing things, he’s a victim of last night, last year, of what he’s read or been told; and he’s sick of it. And prefers to just look. Look at one object.