You pile up associations the way you pile up bricks. Memory itself is a form of architecture.
“Because to remember is to fill the present with the past, which meant that the cost of remembering anything, anything at all, is life itself. We murder ourselves, he thought, by remembering”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“The hardest thing in the world is to live only once. But it’s beautiful here, even the ghosts agree.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“Time is a sensation that alters depending on where you are,”
― You Are Here
― You Are Here
“When you learn a new word, you suddenly see it everywhere. The mind comforts itself by believing this to be coincidence but isn’t—it’s ignorance falling away. Your future self will always see what your present self is blind to. This is the problem with mortality, which is in fact a problem of time.”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“I want to be an artist," he told me, like we were both admitting that we weren't human. We didn't understand how normal this was, to be young, to believe that you were destined to make beautiful things.”
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
― Now Is Not the Time to Panic
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Kaylee’s 2025 Year in Books
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