Rui

“She is the kind of child who feels a protective tenderness toward her own beginnings. It is part of her strategy in a world of displacements to make every effort to restore and preserve, keep things together for their value as remembering objects, a way of fastening herself to a life.”
― Don DeLillo, White Noise

“His collar pulled and his tie strained against the intrusion. He blinked. He was irresistibly aware of the oddness of moving things.”
― Jamie O'Neill, At Swim, Two Boys

“Crowds came to form a shield against their own dying. To become a crowd is to keep out death. To break off from the crowd is to risk death as an individual, to face dying alone.”
― don delillo, White Noise

“He found his cigar smoldering in an ashtray on the liquor cabinet and he fired it up again. The aroma gave him a sense of robust health. He smelled well-being, long life, even placid fatherhood, somewhere, in the burning leaf.”
― Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis