“I saw that I’d get nowhere on the straight path, and that to go crookedly was straighter.”
― Dead Souls
― Dead Souls
“The difference maybe between the living and the dead: the living often want to be numb, the dead never do ...”
― The Dog Stars
― The Dog Stars
“It was war, and in war the truth was almost always the first casualty.”
― Executive Power
― Executive Power
“I woke sometime in the middle of the night and lay in the hammock, wriggled my foot out of the sleeping bag into the chill and found the rough ground with my bare foot and rocked myself back and forth. And watched the stars swim against the mesh of leaves. Like a fish nosing a net.
This is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.”
― The Dog Stars
This is what we are, what we do: nose a net, push push, a net that never exists. The knots in the mesh as strong as our own believing. Our own fears.”
― The Dog Stars
“How you refill. Lying there. Something like happiness, just like water, pure and clear pouring in. So good you don’t even welcome it, it runs through you in a bright stream, as if it has been there all along.”
― The Dog Stars
― The Dog Stars
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