Anagrams Quotes

“We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”

“We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”

“Silent is an anagram of listen.”

“I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.”

“My new apartment might be a place where there are lots of children. They might gather on my porch to play, and when I step out for groceries, they will ask me, "Hi, do you have any kids?" and then, "Why not, don't you like kids?""I like kids," I will explain. "I like kids very much." And when I almost run over them with my car, in my driveway, I will feel many different things.”

“You have a choice," she told the class. "The whorish emptiness of lies or the straightlaced horrors of truth.”

“I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it. ”

“Life is sad. Here is someone.”

“This is why a woman makes things up: Because when she dies, those lives she never got to are all going down with her. All those possibilities will just site there like a bunch of school kids with their hands raised and uncalled on--each knowing, really knowing, the answer.”

“They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.”

“We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our own. We begin in the world as anagrams of our antecedents.”