Mark Slouka Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: b. 1958
Every step you take, a million doors open in front of you like poppies; your next step closes them, and another million bloom. You get on a train, you pick up a lamp, you speak, you don’t. What decides why one thing gets picked to be the way it will be? Accident? Fate? Some weakness in ourselves? Forget your harps, your tin-foil angels—the only heaven worth having would be the heaven of answers.
source: Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.255, W. W. Norton & Company
topic: Angel, Fate, Doors, Every Step, Every Step You Take, Foils
