“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.”
Steven Galloway“I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.”
Steven Galloway“By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency. ”
Steven Galloway“Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.”
Steven Galloway, The Confabulist“It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.”
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo“A bullet leaves evidence that a mortar doesn't.”
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo“It screamed downward, splitting air and sky without effort. A target expanded in size, brought into focus by time and velocity. There was a moment before impact that was the last instant of things as they were. Then the visible world exploded.”
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo“The choices she's made have left her without choice.”
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo“Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?”
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo“... life is a series of tiny, unavoidable decisions.”
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo“You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.”
Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo