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Here are some sharp, poignant bullet‑point quotes by American novelist Jonathan Miles (b. 1971), drawn from his works Want Not, Dear American Airlines, and others:
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“This is our condition. We do not solve problems. We replace them with other problems.”
– From Want Not, a wry apothegm on humanity’s endless cycle (Goodreads) -
“…wondering, not for the first time, if there was a kind of dark bliss built into dementia: an immunity from death and abandonment, a way of fixing a point in time so that nothing can change…”
– Reflective insight into memory and mortality (Want Not) (Goodreads) -
“But then he decided it wasn’t an irony, it was merely the broken gears of time, or the way life can feed you when you’re full (youth) and starve you when you’re hungry (midlife).”
– Poetic comparison of life’s ebb and flow (Want Not) (Goodreads) -
“But now… he was fifty‑four years old. By no means… was he beyond the future tense. But he could feel the past tense gaining on him… He had work to do.”
– On aging, time, and purpose (Want Not) (Goodreads) -
“I’m not sure the word ‘sorry’ does anything justice... It’s the inactions that keep people up at night… They just hang there. They ROT.”
– A searing meditation on remorse and regret (Goodreads) -
“Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.”
– A nuanced definition of hope, separating optimism from meaning (QuoteFancy) -
“Had Stella been named anything else… Literature had beaten me to this moment… Life with it bears its own set of flames.”
– Meta-commentary on narrative, place, and storytelling (Dear American Airlines) (Goodreads) -
“Poems, unlike songs, are written to be read and, thus, come equipped with their own rhythms and melodies; they're self‑contained entities, the whole shebang.”
– On the inherent musicality and form of poetry (BrainyQuote, Goodreads)
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