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“Thinking about spaghetti that boils eternally but is never done is a sad, sad thing.”
― Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep and dreams are a part of sleep. When you're awake you can suppress imagination but you can't supress dreams.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“You musn’t be afraid of the dark.’
‘I’m not,’ said Shadow. ‘I’m afraid of the people in the dark.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Tell him that we fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and that prayers are just so much fucking spam.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and intersections. If only time was a sequence of considered moves and not a chaos of slippages and blunders.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“I find a certain comfort," confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.”
― David Mitchell , The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“The belly craves food, she thinks,
The tongue craves water,
The heart craves love, and
The mind craves stories.”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“All my life, she gave to me a shovel and said, Fill these holes inside of me, Pari.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“They could not truly look dead, because they did not ever look alive.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“She had such unusual eyes. They made me think of the seaside, and so I called her Ocean, and could not have told you why.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Every hour wounds. The last one kills.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Even nothing cannot last forever.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods