Reif Larsen

“This was the curse of the voracious reader, she realized. Real life never quite measured up to the heightened and precise contours of her literary worlds. A real war was never as true as a fictive one.”

“One cannot spend one's entire life running into bathrooms when danger calls!”

“A map does not just chart, it unlocks and formulates meaning; it forms bridges between here and there, between disparate ideas that we did not know were previously connected.”

“Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.”

“Adults were pack rats of old, useless emotions.”