“It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.”
― Light in August
― Light in August
“Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”
― Light in August
― Light in August
“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
― Light in August
― Light in August
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