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“we can say that life itself is the axiom of the empty set. It begins in zero and ends in zero. We know that both states exist, but we will not be conscious of either experience: they are states that are necessary parts of life, even as they cannot be experienced as life. We assume the concept of nothingness, but we cannot prove it. But it must exist. So I prefer to think that Walter has not died but has instead proven for himself the axiom of the empty set, that he has proven the concept of zero. I know nothing else would have made him happier. An elegant mind wants elegant endings, and Walter had the most elegant mind. So I wish him goodbye; I wish him the answer to the axiom he so loved.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.”
I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. “Gets away from what, though?”
“From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn’t really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like ‘happy’ and ‘good’ will never find her.”
“You don’t want her to be happy and good?”
“I’m not sure what’s really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.”
― White Is for Witching
I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. “Gets away from what, though?”
“From her fairy godmother. From the happy ending that isn’t really happy at all. Please have her get out and run off the page altogether, to somewhere secret where words like ‘happy’ and ‘good’ will never find her.”
“You don’t want her to be happy and good?”
“I’m not sure what’s really meant by happy and good. I would like her to be free. Now. Please begin.”
― White Is for Witching
“Nick loved me. A six-o kind of love: He looooooved me. But he didn’t love me, me. Nick loved a girl who doesn’t exist. I was pretending, the way I often did, pretending to have a personality. I can’t help it, it’s what I’ve always done: The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities.”
― Gone Girl
― Gone Girl
“I think Poe's quite good, actually. The whole casual horror thing. Like someone standing next to you and screaming their head off and you asking them what the fuck and them stopping for a moment to say 'Oh you know, I'm just afraid of death' and then they keep on with the screaming.”
― White Is for Witching
― White Is for Witching
“I have a theory," she said. I nodded at her to continue and she said, "There's this fireplace downstairs. I think I went down there for some reason. To hide, maybe. I thought it was all my fault my mother died. And I hit my head on the marble. My brain bled. I died."
She watched me.
"Right," I said. "I don't think that's possible."
"Why don't you think it's possible?" she asked. "Because everyone can see me?"
"It's not that. It's just that it seems to me that the dead only return for love or for revenge. Who did you come back for?"
Neither of us smiled. I felt light-headed I couldn't believe that we were discussing this.
"Love or revenge," she sighed. "Neither."
"Miranda," I said, "You're not dead. Okay?"
"Ore," she said. "I'm not alive.”
― White Is for Witching
She watched me.
"Right," I said. "I don't think that's possible."
"Why don't you think it's possible?" she asked. "Because everyone can see me?"
"It's not that. It's just that it seems to me that the dead only return for love or for revenge. Who did you come back for?"
Neither of us smiled. I felt light-headed I couldn't believe that we were discussing this.
"Love or revenge," she sighed. "Neither."
"Miranda," I said, "You're not dead. Okay?"
"Ore," she said. "I'm not alive.”
― White Is for Witching
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