

“It had always seemed to him a very plush kind of problem, a privilege, really, to consider whether life was meaningful or not.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life

“But the story wanted an ending. Endings are what give stories meaning.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless 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

“The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not.”
― The Night Circus
― The Night Circus

“It isn't only that he died, or how died; it is what he died believing. And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life

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