26 Quotes by Nell Zink

People talk a lot about midlife crisis, the momentary stress that arises when you finally slack off. The sublime flash of greenish light as the curtain of the sanctuary rips, when poets start reviewing books and programmers take jobs in quality control.

I acted like in those teen feminist poems where it’s date rape if he doesn’t read you the Antioch College rules chapter and verse while you’re glumly failing to see rainbows.

He was uninhibited, as in inconsiderate.

The easy joy and the joyful ease of sex with men, their easy-access genitalia, their uncomplicated inner lives…

So many men, so little parking.

When the past is hard to explain, it’s best to concentrate on the future.

Peggy spent most of her time upstairs in the playroom, keeping him cleaned and fed. She was made to bring out the baby and accept praise for her work as if she were a being of a slightly lower social class – which she was. A woman.

Having a free press doesn’t mean anyone cares.

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.