“I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows all my secrets.”
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“You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you'll be afraid to look away, you'll be afraid to sleep.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“But Henry didn't care how sexily I described the idea of him dead. He just listened and nodded like I was giving him directions to the next town.”
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“I'm not into this whole "move with the times" thing. I reckon we should just decide on a year and stick with it.”
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