“Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Strange how we decorate pain.
These ribbons, for instance,
and the small hard teardrops of blood.
Who are they for?
Do we think the dead care?”
― Morning in the Burned House: Poems
These ribbons, for instance,
and the small hard teardrops of blood.
Who are they for?
Do we think the dead care?”
― Morning in the Burned House: Poems
“Like the trains, she's never on time and always departing.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
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