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“In a few hours the world will resume itself, but for now we’re in a pocket of silence. We’re in the plasmapause, a place of equilibrium, where the forces of the earth meet the forces of the sun. I imagine it as a place of stillness, where the particles of dust stop spinning and hang motionless in deep space.”
― The Boys of My Youth
― The Boys of My Youth
“As he practiced his writing, Jijingi came to understand what Moseby had meant: writing was not just a way to record what someone said; it could help you decide what you would say before you said it. And words were not just the pieces of speaking; they were the pieces of thinking. When you wrote them down, you could grasp your thoughts like bricks in your hands and push them into different arrangements. Writing let you look at your thoughts in a way you couldn’t if you were just talking, and having seen them, you could improve them, make them stronger and more elaborate.”
― The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
― The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
“Books, she has found, are a way to live a thousand lives--or to find strength in a very long one.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“I told them, ‘If you don’t know how to live on anymore, then live for me! If you don’t know the meaning of your life, then make me that meaning and use me as your reason to live.”
― Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 1
― Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu, Vol. 1
“That’s what it’s like to lose a woman. And at a certain time, losing one woman means losing all women. That’s how we become Men Without Women. We lose Percy faith, Francis Lai, and 101 Strings. And ammonites and coelacanths. And we lose her beautiful back. But all of that has vanished. All that remains is an old broken piece of eraser, and the far-off sound of the sailor’s dirge. And the unicorn beside the fountain, his lonely horn aimed at the sky.
I hope that M is in heaven now – or somewhere like it. And it would be nice if her thoughts occasionally turn to me. But maybe that’s asking too much. I pray that, even if I’m not part of it, M is happy and at peace, with music playing on into eternity.
As one of the Men Without Women, I pray for this with all my heart. At this point prayer seems like the only thing I can do. Probably.
- Men Without Women”
― Men Without Women
I hope that M is in heaven now – or somewhere like it. And it would be nice if her thoughts occasionally turn to me. But maybe that’s asking too much. I pray that, even if I’m not part of it, M is happy and at peace, with music playing on into eternity.
As one of the Men Without Women, I pray for this with all my heart. At this point prayer seems like the only thing I can do. Probably.
- Men Without Women”
― Men Without Women
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