“Sometimes just to say your own truth out loud is enough to find others like you.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Human remains... What exactly did that mean? Was it a few hard bones and soft tissue? Clothes and accessories? Things solid and compact enough to fit inside a coffin? Or was it rather the intangible -- the words we send out into the ether, the dreams we keep to ourselves, the heartbeats we skip beside our lovers, the voids we try to fill and can never adequately articulate -- when all was said and done, what was left of an entire life, a human being... and could that really be disinterred from the ground?”
― The Island of Missing Trees
― The Island of Missing Trees
“a man must learn to forgive—to know what is important, that to live without forgiveness was a kind of death with breathing and movement.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“Perhaps nothing was worth worrying about in a city where everything was constantly shifting and dissolving, and the only thing they could ever rely on was this moment in time, which was already half gone.”
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
― 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“The paradox of volcanoes was that they were symbols of destruction but also life. Once the lava slows and cools, it solidifies and then breaks down over time to become soil - rich, fertile soil.
She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.
She could plant a forest inside herself.”
― The Midnight Library
She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland.
She could plant a forest inside herself.”
― The Midnight Library
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