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“The way I saw it, my side was going to convince the jury that the big yellow thing in the sky is the sun. His side had to convince the jury that it’s an egg yolk.”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir

“Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“If we desire to live, we can only do so in the margins of that place.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“I've been in love for five hundred million years…”
― Italo Calvino, Cosmicomics

“They've stopped. They don't understand what I'm saying, they don't believe me, they don't know whether to be afraid or be encouraged by it. In any case, I don't understand what I've said either, I don't believe myself, I don't know whether to feel relieved either, and I'm afraid too.”
― Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

“In other words, nobody really knew anything.”
― Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

“I might say I am in love with each of those girls and at the same time I am sure of being in love always with her alone.”
― Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

“In the course of millions of years there was no form of living creature that hadn’t had its opportunity to come forth, populate the Earth, and then—in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred—decline and vanish.”
― Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

“Just as I cancelled the existence of my wife's lover from the punch cards, so I must cancel him from the world of the living. Which is why I am now pulling out my gun and pointing it at you, Müller, why I'm squeezing the trigger, killing you.”
― Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

“And if we prefer not to speak of it, whether for good or for ill, it is because the only thing we could say is this: poor, frail universe, born of nothing, all we are and do resembles you.”
― Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

“...if you should recognize Eurydice's voice with its distant echo of the silent music of the elements, tell me, give me news of her, you extraterrestrials, temporary visitors, so that I can resume my plans to bring Eurydice to the centre of the terrestrial life, to restore the realm of the gods of within, of the gods who inhabit the dense compactness of things, now that the gods of without, the gods of Olympian heights and the rarefied air, have given you all they could give, and clearly it isn't enough.”
― Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics

“I watched Rah in the night: her gorgeous hair, her jewels, her flashing clothes. 'You're dressed for a ball,' I said. 'I have to properly celebrate finding you again,' she replied. For me there was nothing to celebrate; I had fallen back under her old spell; my patient plan had failed.”
― Italo Calvino

“A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

“One day I will forgive you; until then there are scabs everywhere that you have touched me.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“The completion of this book was supported in part by a grant from the Ralph and Elisa Landin Foundation. They are not responsible for the views expressed herein.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“Liberated from Saturn, from the order that for years had kept us in line, our narrative organized and mindful of the conventions of story. Now the order had been upset, lost in a melee of voices that for years wanted their freedom.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“For him, being in love with Delia had always been like this, as in the mirror of this cavern: in a world beyond words. For that matter, in all his poems he had never written a verse of love- not one.”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

“It was all because she had fallen a bit in love with that boy Fornero. Fallen in love? Fallen a bit. Things should be seen as they are: neither more nor less. She had spent the night with him, true, but that expression was too strong, it really wasn't the right way to put it; she had waited in the company of that boy until it was time for the door of her building to be opened.”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

“You cannot kill or steal from a man while he is asleep and heartbroken. While it is said that everything is fair in love an war, the dictum is nullified when both love and war occur simultaneously; then, the rules of battle become more stringent. The politics that lead to war can always be argued, but there is an undeniable sympathy that must be extended when a woman leaves a man.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper

“i miss u i love you
there's no second ive lived you can't call your own”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match by the neck and after locating the friction strip sparks to life a final ball of light.

First, he reads a few lines by match light and then as the heat bites his fingertips he applies the flame to the page. Here then is one end: a final act of reading, a final act of consumption. And as the fire rapidly devours the paper, Navidson's eyes frantically sweep down over the text, keeping just ahead of the necessary immolation, until as he reaches the last few words, flames lick around his hands, ash peels off into the surrounding emptiness, and then as the fire retreats, dimming, its light suddenly spent, the book is gone leaving nothing behind but invisible traces already dismantled in the dark.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“...toward that suddenly brilliant town called Obscurity by a dazzling seashore called The Past.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“Well, I've kept you waiting long enough," he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which, at odd turns in the evening, seems closeness itself.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“You can't help people like her unless they want to be helped. That's the first law of mental health. You know it, I know it.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“It takes death to make a woman really beautiful, and it takes death by drowning to make her most beautiful of all.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“That?' asked the voice on the phone. 'Those are the voices of twelve thousand killed in a typhoon, seven thousand killed by hurricane, three thousand buried by a cyclone. Am I boring you? That's what the wind is. It's a lot of people dead. The wind killed them, took their minds to give itself intelligence. It took all their voices and made them into one voice. All those millions of people killed in the past ten thousand years, tortured and run from continent to continent on the backs and in the bellies on monsoons and whirlwinds. Oh Christ, what a poem you could write about it!”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country

“We thought of them as "Women," and therefore timid; but it was two thousand years since they had had anything to be afraid of, and certainly more than one thousand since they had outgrown the feeling.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland