Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.
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“I'm not generally in a hurry. I lost my hurry a long time ago. Why rush? Where do I need to get so fast? Just the opposite, my everyday life centres around small actions aimed at helping pass the time, making it disappear into a series of unimportant motions completed without the slightest hint of urgency.”
― A Little Luck
― A Little Luck
“Maybe that's all happiness is, an instant inhabited, a random moment in which words are unnecessary because it would take too many of them to describe it. To accept the instant in its pure, condensed form, without allowing language and its obsession with narration to dilute the intensity.
Time compressed and narration's failed attempts to
expand it.
Happiness like an image to be contemplated in
silence.”
― A Little Luck
Time compressed and narration's failed attempts to
expand it.
Happiness like an image to be contemplated in
silence.”
― A Little Luck
“Zoey understood that mothering was in the details you never saw. And the lack of it was the things you always noticed.”
― Other Birds
― Other Birds
“Setrakian ran and ran and found himself crying . .. for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.
A matter of choice.”
― The Strain
A matter of choice.”
― The Strain
“I want to be younger. I want someone to give me back a piece of the twenty years I've lost. But that's not possible. There's no lost and found where I can go to claim those missing years. All I can do now is try not to waste a single moment from now on. I can't let any more time slip away, I have to grab it and hold onto it.”
― A Little Luck
― A Little Luck
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