“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“But you can go on thinking and imagining forever further and stop at no decisions to pick up a bag for the thinkings. Turn your thinking into your work, your thoughts a book, in sieges.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?”
― Clockwork Prince
― Clockwork Prince
“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
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