“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“We are all stardust and stories.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“I think the best stories feel like they’re still going, somewhere, out in story space.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“We should always make time for the things we like. If we don't, we might forget how to be happy.”
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
― The House in the Cerulean Sea
“Spiritual but not religious,” Zachary clarifies. He doesn’t say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the silence of freshly fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
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