And yet, he knew himself and he knew he was the type of person that never called anyone, unless he was absolutely certain the advance would be welcomed. His brain was treacherously negative.
“People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.”
― The Outsider
― The Outsider
“She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn’t.”
― The Passage
― The Passage
“Now it is dark. Stars soar above the vacant city, heaven’s diadem. A century since the last person walked here, and still one cannot travel its streets, as I do, without seeing one’s face reflected a thousand-fold.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
“I wondered, as I wondered so often when I was that age, who I was, and what exactly was looking at the face in the mirror. If the face I was looking at wasn’t me, and I knew it wasn’t, because I would still be me whatever happened to my face, then what was me? And what was watching?”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“How ironic! We are born faithful and afraid, when it should be the opposite; it is life that teaches us how much we stand to lose.”
― The City of Mirrors
― The City of Mirrors
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