“But I thought about all the things that had to have spun into place in order for us to be alive and for us to be right there, right then. I thought about the few thing we thought we knew and the billions of things we couldn't know, all spinning, whirling our there somewhere.”
― The Great Unexpected
― The Great Unexpected
“and in that recurring dream, I found myself trapped in some sort of gigantic game of which I was unfamiliar with the rules; lost in a labyrinthine town of dark and damp, criss-crossing streets, ambiguous characters of uncertain authority having no idea of why I was there nor what I had to do, and where the first sign of the beginning of understanding was the wish to die.”
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“Which animal do you see when you hold me and close your eyes and think of animals?”
― The Reader
― The Reader
“Molly is not a Quaker, Jeremy. Quakers don't have tits that big.”
― Matching Configurations
― Matching Configurations
“I’ll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I’ll change your heart into green grass, and all you love into a sheep. I’ll turn you into a bad poet with dreams.”
― The Last Unicorn
― The Last Unicorn
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