“But we overlay the present onto the past. We look back through the lens of what we know now, so we’re not seeing it as the people we were, we’re seeing it as the people we are, and that means the past has been radically altered.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“Hay detalles que se pierden en la noche de los tiempos y es mejor así: terminar de entender las cosas vuelve rígida la mente”
― Optic Nerve
― Optic Nerve
“The boys had this way of knowing what the other was thinking without ever using words. "Because it's like that when you're fourteen," he said. The superpower of being young is that you're closest to being nothing - which is also the same as being very old.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“Fluffy always said there was no greater luxury for a woman than to have a window over the sink.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
“And so I made the decision to change. It might seem like change was impossible, given my nature and my age, but I understood exactly what there was to lose. It was chemistry all over again. The point wasn’t whether or not I liked it. The point was it had to be done.”
― The Dutch House
― The Dutch House
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