“was always a strange thing, coming home. Coming home meant that you had, at one point, left it and, in doing so, irreversibly changed. How odd, then, to be able to return to a place that would always be anchored in your notion of the past. How could this place still be there, if the you that once lived there no longer existed?”
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
― A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
“I’m still searching. Searching for somewhere I can be accepted as I am. Just one place is all I need. Somewhere to be at peace.”
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
― What You Are Looking for is in the Library
“People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’ Laurence Arne-Sayles, interview in The Secret Garden, May 1976”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
“Under everything is happiness so deep and rich it’s like dark wet earth. I don’t know what it means. I don’t know why it’s there. But I could reach out and grab a fistful of it.”
― The Binding
― The Binding
“Still, I can become a good person. I can become a good person and create one good person for the world.
And I think that if I can just do that, then I might become a person who can create even more than that.”
― How Do You Live?
And I think that if I can just do that, then I might become a person who can create even more than that.”
― How Do You Live?
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