“I want my life to be like-like making pottery. I want to enjoy it while it's happening, not just for where it might get me eventually.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“This world, it breathes you in … it knows you, and then it breathes you out again, shares you.”
― The Beauty of Darkness
― The Beauty of Darkness
“If they were both repeating the same motion in two different places, somehow it felt like they were doing it together. Which meant he wasn't really alone.
He pictured two dust motes spinning in concentric circles. Maybe it was like that everywhere, for everyone. There was always someone doing the exact same thing... People simply didn't know it. Could be you were cutting vegetables with your left hand while it rained in Japan and a woman in Puebla was doing the same thing, and you both looked up at the sky at the same time and saw a bird fly by.”
― Velvet Was the Night
He pictured two dust motes spinning in concentric circles. Maybe it was like that everywhere, for everyone. There was always someone doing the exact same thing... People simply didn't know it. Could be you were cutting vegetables with your left hand while it rained in Japan and a woman in Puebla was doing the same thing, and you both looked up at the sky at the same time and saw a bird fly by.”
― Velvet Was the Night
“But most of us are too scared to even ask what we want, in case we can't have it.”
― People We Meet on Vacation
― People We Meet on Vacation
“Because rain is the closest thing I have to tears.”
― Thunderhead
― Thunderhead
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