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“What did it say about me that all of my favorite novels fell somewhere between a love letter and a suicide note?”
― Heaven and Hurricanes
― Heaven and Hurricanes
“The truth is, I was never a nihilist at all. I just wore nihilism like a shield to protect my unrelenting tragic optimism.”
― Heaven and Hurricanes
― Heaven and Hurricanes
“Hemingway once said that ‘there is nothing to writing, you just sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’ What Hemingway failed to mention is that bleeding is the easy part. To cut is what makes writing hard. Sitting down to write and hitting that first key or touching the tip of your pen to that blank sheet of paper - that’s the hard part. Once you start - once you spill that first bit of ink and let it bleed into the page, the rest takes care of itself. There’s nothing to it. You just sit there and bleed until it stops. It is not for this reason, but it’s still interesting and worth mentioning that the word ‘write’ comes from the Proto-Germanic word ‘writan,’ which literally meant to scratch, tear, or cut.”
― Heaven and Hurricanes
― Heaven and Hurricanes
“In the daily war I've waged against myself, my lover has been twice my ally and therefore twice my enemy.”
― Heaven and Hurricanes
― Heaven and Hurricanes
“Reading that book is like looking at the final EKG results of a man who died a long, long time ago. Each word reads like the rapid peaks and falls of his arrhythmic imagination; each sentence steering him toward the stroke of genius that will eventually cause his mind to flatline.”
― Heaven and Hurricanes
― Heaven and Hurricanes
“As I sat in Mallory Square the next morning, waiting for Iliza, the pale yellow light of the sun reflected off the water as if to parody the jaundice of the island’s locals.”
― Heaven and Hurricanes
― Heaven and Hurricanes
“My particular brand of anxiety often sought to corrupt the innocence of the everyday into the delinquency of my daydreams.”
― Heaven and Hurricanes
― Heaven and Hurricanes
“It had become my opinion that the unenlightened were unenlightened for a reason and that while the unexamined life may not be worth living, according to Socrates, at least it might make survival desirable.”
― Heaven and Hurricanes
― Heaven and Hurricanes
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