stranger

“Do you believe in God? I don't think I ever asked you that one. Well I do now.
God’s a house. Which is not to say that our house is God’s house or even a house of God. What I mean to say is that our house i̲s̲ God.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Can’t you see that I don’t want your benevolence? A strange desire you have to shower benefits on a man who… curses them, who feels them a burden in fact! Why did you seek me out at the beginning of my illness? Maybe I was very glad to die.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

“They sat side by side, both mournful and dejected, as though they had been cast up by the tempest alone on some deserted shore. He looked at Sonia and felt how great was her love for him, and strange to say he felt it suddenly burdensome and painful to be so loved.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“i miss the man i thought i was before i met her the man who would have saved her who would have done something who would have been tom maybe hes the one im looking for or maybe im looking for all of them
i miss u i love u
there's no second ive lived you can't call your own
-Navy”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves