“This person, this self, this me, finally, was made somewhere else. Everything had come from somewhere else, and it would all go somewhere else. I was nothing but a pathway for the person known as me.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape and flows around things, and finds the secret paths no one else has thought about -- the tiny hole through the roof or the bottom of the box. There's no doubt it's the most versatile of the five elements. It can wash away earth; it can put out fire; it can wear a piece of metal down and sweep it away. Even wood, which is its natural complement, can't survive without being nurtured by water. And yet, you haven't drawn on those strengths in living your life, have you?”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“Did the true, umbilical love that bound people together for the length of their lives require a certain intellectual dislocution in order to push past our insistent rationalization and enter the rough, uneven space inside our hearts?”
― The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
― The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
“I would not know what to say to you, except this: there was never a map that got it all right, and truth and beauty were never married to one another for long.”
― The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
― The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
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