“If I detested him who would I be? I am not without Him, without Him I am not myself, all this is obscure but I want everything, I want the cut and what is cut plus the place of the cutting and its edges, I likewise want the empty notebook, the full notebook and the exergue, the notes of the textamant and the discordance of all the questions.”
― Tomb(e)
― Tomb(e)
“When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“She mustn't wonder how they looked and where they were going. Not remember the injustice. Not ask whether punishment on earth was necessary to being rewarded in heaven”
― The Dark Light
― The Dark Light
“You mustn't deny him the right to love you as he wants to.”
― The Dark Light
― The Dark Light
“I gaze at his face night and day I hold his face in he grip of my eyes I double each breath of his with one of mine and I work relentlessly I secrete a thread with my nerves each millimetre of this thread wears me down to the heart but I move forward and I display a unique capacity for work stitch after stitch I sew and create the being who cannot not be, this creation is infinite but always the blow comes where it is not anticipated I believe him to be strong and suddenly
He tears himself.
And my body is empty right down to the heart.”
― Tomb(e)
He tears himself.
And my body is empty right down to the heart.”
― Tomb(e)
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