“Here is my arm. I want to live.”
― Ava
― Ava
“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“Suddenly it occurred to me that maybe the point of writing wasn't just to record something past but also to prolong the present, like in One Thousand and One Nights, to stretch out the time until the next thing happened.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“He was clearly aware of only one thing, his own total isolation. The world had fallen out from under him, and he was left alone.
To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
― Dandelion Wine
― Dandelion Wine
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