“Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Sputnik Sweetheart
― Sputnik Sweetheart
“I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?”
― A Wild Sheep Chase
― A Wild Sheep Chase
“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
― What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
“When people tell a lie about something, they have to make up a bunch of lies to go with the first one. ‘Mythomania’ is the word for it.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“In any society built on institutionalized racism, race mixing doesn't merely challenge the system as unjust, it reveals the system as unsustainable and incoherent. Race mixing proves that races can mix, and in a lot of cases want to mix. Because a mixed person embodies that rebuke to the logic of the system, race mixing becomes a crime worse than treason.”
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
― Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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