“No matter what documents you investigate, and what objects you retrieve, you many never answer the questions that are most important to you, but nevertheless, sooner or later you must finish whatever file you have begun.”
― The Beatrice Letters
― The Beatrice Letters
“No one hears how they whisper, Think me. The words blacken and climb until she can’t see past their spiny tops.”
― The Girls of Peculiar
― The Girls of Peculiar
“I will love you as we find ourselves farther and farther from one another, where once we were so close that we could slip the curved straw, and the long, slender spoon, between our lips and fingers respectively. I will love you until the chances of us running into one another slip form slim to zero, and until your face is fogged by distant memory.”
― The Beatrice Letters
― The Beatrice Letters
“The first step in liquidating a people,' said Hubl, 'is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster.”
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
― The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“That, Beatrice, is how I will love you even as the world goes on its wicked way.”
― The Beatrice Letters
― The Beatrice Letters
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