Ben MarcusEventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them. ✨ Ben Marcus (2012). The Flame Alphabet, p.29, Vintage371Politics
Ben MarcusRHETORIC The art of making life less believable; the calculated use of language, not to alarm but to do full harm to our busy minds and properly dispose our listeners to a pain th… ▶364LifeLoveReading
Ben MarcusSuspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it. ✨ Ben Marcus (2012). The Flame Alphabet, p.269, Vintage332LifeTime
Ben MarcusWithout sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same. ✨ Ben Marcus (2012). The Flame Alphabet, p.225, Granta Books332ReadingSadness
Ben MarcusA misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. ✨ Ben Marcus (2007). Notable American Women: A Novel, p.54, Vintage311Reading
Ben MarcusTo refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood. ✨ … ▶274DeathHumanityReading
Ben MarcusSpelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth. ✨ Ben Marcus (2007). Notable American Wom… ▶279Reading
Ben MarcusBeing with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced. ✨ Ben Marcus (2007… ▶224Reading
Ben MarcusRain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need. ✨ Ben Marcus (2007). Notable Am… ▶192HumanityReading
Ben MarcusSorry, I said to myself, wondering how many times in my marriage I'd said that, how many times I'd meant it, how many times Claire had actually believed it, and, most important, h… ▶151LoveTime
Ben MarcusPeople are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. At the time of this writing, the whole world is a crime scene: People eat space with … ▶152DeathHumanityHumor
Ben MarcusSlamming the book shut produces a wind on the face, a weather that is copyrighted by the author, and this wind may not be deployed without permission, nor may the pages be turned … ▶1810Reading
