The Sunken Cathedral QUOTES

1 " How can you possibly reconcile the great inequities of gender – coupled with the perversions of age and the randomness of everything? "

― Kate Walbert , The Sunken Cathedral

3 " The point is,” Sid Morris says. “This. Now. Paint on your brush, wind at your back, my crappy studio. This is the only certainty. Here: your sensations; your body existing for its moment in time. Everything else is crap. "

― Kate Walbert , The Sunken Cathedral

5 " In the background, classical music plays from a paint-splattered radio, the New York station with the ancient announcer more frequently heard in doctors’ waiting rooms and other places where signs prohibit the use of cell phones – the last bastions of Beethoven or Chopin or, on racier days, Shostakovich. "

― Kate Walbert , The Sunken Cathedral

7 " Beauty! Sid Morris said, addressing the dirty windows that looked out to the alley where, on certain Thursdays, the smell up from the Chinese restaurant across the street reached a point you could almost taste. Beauty! he said. "

― Kate Walbert , The Sunken Cathedral