“Okay.” Hai nodded, but his mind was somewhere else. “Hey. Do you think a life you can’t remember is still a good life?” The question sounded almost silly aloud. “I mean, like—” “Yes,” said Sony. “Why’s that?” “Because someone else will remember it.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“He wanted too much of one feeling—and I guess his heart gave out because of it. I don’t
think we’re made to hold too much of any one thing.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
think we’re made to hold too much of any one thing.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
“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
“With money I earned by myself, I gave my daughter a room just so she can read in peace for a day. And I sat there and watched her read, sipping a scotch from the bar. And I cried like a baby. And Lina, my little Lina, she said, 'Mama, why are you crying?' And I said, ' I know how God feels now.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
“The boys had this way of knowing what the other was thinking without ever using words. "Because it's like that when you're fourteen," he said. The superpower of being young is that you're closest to being nothing - which is also the same as being very old.”
― The Emperor of Gladness
― The Emperor of Gladness
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