“She is in all of his spaces and all of his thoughts. He contemplates formulas and degrees of rationality and they all turn into her. He thinks about time, which has only recently begun, or at least now feels different. He thinks: the Babylonians were wrong; time is made of her.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“For every sensation Regan could conjure, there was an artist who had beautifully suffered the same.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“You are brilliant. Tell your mind to be kind to you today.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“Either yes, it mattered very much, because everything was a consequence of something and therefore what became of them was somehow predetermined, or no, it did not matter at all, because beginnings and endings were not as important as the moments that could have happened or the outcomes that might have been.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
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