we imagine god and endow her or him with the qualities we need to survive and grow.
“I consider how you don't get to choose whom you're attracted to, you only get to wonder about it retrospectively.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Shit, meet Fan. Fan, this is Shit.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Such narrative arcs make good movies but shitty existences.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“Orito pictures the human mind that weaves disparate threads of belief, memory, and narrative into an entity whose common name is Self, and which sometimes calls itself Perception.”
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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