Tom Hoffman

“I sometimes imagine I would like my ashes to be scattered in a library. But then the librarians would just have to come in early the next morning to sweep them up again, before the people got there.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you.”
― Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances

“What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself an adjective meaning 'placed on top', 'added', 'appended', 'foreign'. Adjectives seem fairly innocent additions, but look again. These small imported mechanisms are in charge of attaching everything in the world to its place in particularity. They are the latches of being.”
― Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
― Joan Didion