Anagrams Quotes

“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.”