Marie

“I was, in reality, driven by what I’d heard referred to in rehab all those years ago as “a thousand forms of fear.” Sadly, somewhere deep in my soul, I knew that was probably me.”
― Mark Lanegan, Sing Backwards and Weep: A Memoir

“It's hard to know where you are when you're trying to read a map by the light of a falling star.”
― Mark Lanegan, Devil in a Coma

“The child seeks his way along the half-hidden paths. Reading, he covers his ears; the book is on a table that is far too high, and one hand is always on the page. To him, the hero’s adventures can still be read in the swirling letters like figures and messages in drifting snowflakes. His breath is part of the air of the events narrated, and all the participants breathe it. He mingles with the characters far more closely than grown-ups do. He is unspeakably touched by the deeds, the words that are exchanged; and, when he gets up, he is covered over and over by the snow of his reading.”
― Walter Benjamin, One Way Street And Other Writings

“یک وسیلۀ درمان موقتی وجود دارد، آن اَلکُل است، و یک وسیلۀ درمان قطعی و همیشگی می‌تواند وجود داشته باشد، و آن ماری است. ماری مرا ترک کرده است. دلقکی که به مِی‌خوارگی بیُفتد زودتر از یک شیروانی‌ساز مست سقوط می‌کند.”
― Heinrich Böll, The Clown