63 Quotes by Nathan Hill

Nobody knows the words to use today. They are committed only to their individual furies.

There are some mysteries of the universe that ought to remain mysteries.

This was an Introduction to Literature course, but she cared less about literature than she did about points. It wasn’t the topic of the course that mattered to her; what mattered was the currency.

Spiritually debilitating. Everyone feeling a small ache of regret, suspecting that, as a people, we could do better. But we don't.

The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.

Maybe desire was best left unspoken.

Don't break character!' she scolded.

It was true. Heard it on Cronkite.

And that old story about the ghost that looks like a rock comes to her now: The farther from shore you take it, the heavier it becomes, until one day it gets too heavy to bear.Faye imagines her father taking a small piece of earth with him, a memento: this farm, this family, his memory of it. This was the drowning stone from his stories. He took it to sea and took it to Iceland and took it all the way to America. And as long as he held on to it, he just kept sinking.