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Perhaps they didn't know they were at sea. Was there a certain percentage of people at sea who lacked the knowledge that they were at sea? — Ben Marcus

My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives. — Ben Marcus

Something struck us as wrong, which only meant that we had not thought of it ourselves. — Ben Marcus

The Living: Those members, persons, and items that still appear to engage their hands into what is hot, what is rubbery, what cannot be seen or lifted — Ben Marcus

Fiction becomes a place where I face certain fears such as losing language or losing my children. — Ben Marcus

When men cough or talk into their own hands, they are praying to their own bones, hoping to change their minds about something. — Ben Marcus

Verbalize someone's actions back to them. Menace them with language, the language mirror. Death by feedback. — Ben Marcus

I would like to outsmart the role that is destined for me. But I can't. I have failed to destroy my category. — Ben Marcus

These people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance ... — Ben Marcus

My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else. — Ben Marcus

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability. — Ben Marcus

Among other things, autoimmune disorders are an induction into a world of unstable information and no reliable expertise. — Ben Marcus

Fiction is too complicated and too elusive to break down into a set of tricks. — Ben Marcus

Together we were something less, which felt like such a relief, to not be ourselves for a while. — Ben Marcus

He had seemed daunting when I first saw him off the trail, hulking over the Jewish couple as if he might carve into their backs and eat them. Now — Ben Marcus

It was so easy to agree to what did not test us. — Ben Marcus

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail. — Ben Marcus

Franklin was a thin, pink person who was either a genius or, well, not one. Chances weren't. — Ben Marcus

Rain 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

Literature is fighting for its very life because compromise is mistook for ambition, and joining up is preferred to standing out ... — Ben Marcus

I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow. — Ben Marcus

Maybe this was the quiet before the real fucking quiet. — Ben Marcus

We can contain such secret misery, perversion. — Ben Marcus

I needed my daughter to disappear from my sight. If I could have had a wish, I would have wished her away. — Ben Marcus

...identity compromises (relationships) may result... — Ben Marcus

In a perfect world the current laws would not apply. — Ben Marcus

My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all. — Ben Marcus

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it. — Ben Marcus

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it. — Ben Marcus

The task of being right is a task the father perfects over time. — Ben Marcus

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same. — Ben Marcus

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth. — Ben Marcus

I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Bernhard. — Ben Marcus

What treaty is it that finally separates those two territories, the hard resolve of our exteriors and the terrible disaster on our insides? — Ben Marcus

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them. — Ben Marcus

My goal, with whatever I'm working on, is to lose track of time. — Ben Marcus

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability. — Ben Marcus

The other kids formed a roving pack, moving like one of those clusters of birds that seem to share a single, frantic brain. — Ben Marcus