“I felt connected to the modest peace offered with the fare, thinking about nothing. Just wisps of things, meaningless things, like remembering my mother once told me that Van Johnson always wore red socks, even in black and white movies.”
― Year of the Monkey
― Year of the Monkey
“The act of writing in real time in order to deflect, escape, or slow it down is obviously futile yet not entirely fruitless.”
― Year of the Monkey
― Year of the Monkey
“The problem began right at the start, with one of us entirely inside the other, a state that seemed close but was fundamentally distant.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“Safe and full of holy potential.”
― All Fours
― All Fours
“If you could harness that energy - that constant, roving hunger - you could do wonders with it. You could push the earth inch by inch through the cosmos until it collided heart-first with the sun”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
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