Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist Quotes

There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.

An elevator doesn’t exist without its freight. If there’s no one to get on, the elevator remains in quiescence. The elevator and the passenger need each other.

A slow hour passed, distracted by intermittent drops of moisture from above, as if the sky were conducting a feasibility study on the implications of rain. Of committing to a course of action.