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“I write in the first person to make sure that I’m still alive.
I write in the third person to make sure that I’m not just a projection of my own self, that I’m three-dimensional and have a body.
Sometimes I nudge a glass and note with satisfaction that it falls and breaks. So I do still exist and cause consequences.
If no one is watching me, then I’ll have to watch myself, so as not to turn into quantum soup.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow

“I can feel myself giving up over time. Getting used to it. Old age is getting used to things.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow

“What happened to the names after their owners died? Were they set free? Did the names continue to mean something, or did they disintegrate like the bodies beneath them, leaving only the bones of consonants?”
― Georgi Gospodinov, The Physics of Sorrow: From the International Booker Prize-winning author of Time Shelter

“Sweep everything under the rug for long enough, and you have to move right out of the house.”
― Rachel Ingalls, Mrs. Caliban