Nicholaus Patnaude said this quote

And maybe one winter it will get too cold and I’ll forget about the summers we once shared. My family portrait mightfold in too, producing the same horrific effect as Jeremy’s: that I, all along, had another sibling who eclipsed and became me—a prosperous sibling, an imposturous sibling, who outgrew a sense of time and place in which the three of us were everything to one another. Then only my blood in the sea could unfold and lead me back out of the origami.

~ Nicholaus Patnaude

The world was alive, the sky descending; our times were lullabies and sad goodbyes.

~ Nicholaus Patnaude

Once upon a time Karen saw somebody nobody else could see. She thought to ask an old man: who were you? Once upon a time I thought to dream of medicine. Now I dream of medicine by the sea.

~ Nicholaus Patnaude

I notice young girls picking flowers off her gravestone, their clean hearts are soapstone. Their small sorrows are for children alone. And all of their stories will never be told.

~ Nicholaus Patnaude