Chandhra

“People call me a philosopher or a scientist or an anthropologist. I am none of those things. I am an anamnesiologist. I study what has been forgotten. I divine what has disappeared utterly. I work with absences, with silences, with curious gaps between things. I am really more of a magician than anything else.’ Laurence Arne-Sayles, interview in The Secret Garden, May 1976”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“It's like I said, Ari, we don't always do the right things, you know? We don't always say the right things. Sometimes, it seems like it hurts too much to look at something. So you don't. You just don't look. But it doesn't go away...”
― Sáenz, Benjamin Alire

“A girl is like a tree? Yeah, and a guy is about as smart as a piece of dead wood infested with termites”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed. Had I been hurt? Had I healed? Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz