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"My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. Aren't you?" — Mar 19, 2026 10:52PM
"My gratitude for good writing is unbounded; I’m grateful for it the way I’m grateful for the ocean. Aren't you?" — Mar 19, 2026 10:52PM
“Love had taken possession of Pablo’s soul, the kind of love that gnaws away at a person’s rationality, that has them stumbling over their words and leaves them frantic with desire.”
― In the Shadow of Time
― In the Shadow of Time
“Remember that the best medical treatment is a sense of relativism. No matter how badly you might feel, take comfort in knowing there's someone who feels much worse.”
― The Sympathizer
― The Sympathizer
“You see them in the mercury
light of water, the expanding
orbs of silver where trout
breathe. You hear
them in the sleepy kiss
of rainfall on pine
needles, smell them
as if they were snow
to the west.”
― The Indifferent World
light of water, the expanding
orbs of silver where trout
breathe. You hear
them in the sleepy kiss
of rainfall on pine
needles, smell them
as if they were snow
to the west.”
― The Indifferent World
“Perhaps it is true that for all the evidence of the mirror, one pictures oneself in some deep niche of the mind as forever 18.”
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“Always remember that love, much like our faith in God, is the kite we must fly, even on a windless day.”
― In the Shadow of Time
― In the Shadow of Time
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