Quotes from Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight.""We always go out on Fridays.""It's Thursday, Alvis.""You are so tied to routine.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

He found himself inhabiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

What business does memory have with time?

The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.