“He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.”
― Cities of the Plain
― Cities of the Plain
“Everything was real; inconceivably real, infinitely dear. These and all things started as nothing, latent within a vast energy-broth, but then we named them, and loved them, and, in this way, brought them forth. And now we must lose them.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.”
― All the Pretty Horses
― All the Pretty Horses
“He came out of nothingness, took form, was loved, was always bound to return to nothingness.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
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