“Maybe instead of strings it's stories things are made of, an infinite number of tiny vibrating stories; once upon a time they all were part of one big giant superstory, except it got broken up into a jillion different pieces, that's why no story on its own makes any sense, and so what you have to do in a life is try and weave it back together, my story into your story, our stories into all the other people's we know, until you've got something that to God or whoever might look like a letter, or even a whole word....”
― Skippy Dies
― Skippy Dies
“The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been – which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
“It's like I told you last night son. The earth is mostly just a boneyard. But pretty in the sunlight, he added”
― Lonesome Dove
― Lonesome Dove
“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
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