“I knew my life was the duration of a thought exhausting itself, and I could feel the thought running out of steam, trailing off like a comet through a dead-ended electric pathway, I was the thought that never formed a connection, never linked up to new pathways, and never caused anything of consequence.”
― All Day Is a Long Time: A Lyrical Coming-of-Age Novel About Addiction, Hope, and the Redemptive Power of Literature
― All Day Is a Long Time: A Lyrical Coming-of-Age Novel About Addiction, Hope, and the Redemptive Power of Literature
“There are some parts of us we have to keep covered. There are some parts of us that are private, that can’t belong to anyone”
― In Between Dreams
― In Between Dreams
“Do you believe in ghosts?”
“Well,” I said, “that depends on what you mean by a ghost.”
“Something about a person in our past that haunts us. Something that won’t go away by itself.”
― A Boy at the Edge of the World
“Well,” I said, “that depends on what you mean by a ghost.”
“Something about a person in our past that haunts us. Something that won’t go away by itself.”
― A Boy at the Edge of the World
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― 1984
― 1984
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