“Our house was not unsentient matter—it had a heart and a soul, and eyes to see with…. We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up and speak out its eloquent welcome—and we could not enter it unmoved.” —MARK TWAIN
“Most of us can’t accept that the gig is ours, so we lurk around, we tug and scratch at ourselves as if in borrowed skins, and never fully belong to the moments that can steadily add up to nothing a lot quicker than you think.”
― My Year Abroad
― My Year Abroad
“She could clearly perceive the contours of her obsession with him. It would have been sensible to tear it from her skull, but the object had grown too large to be removed without splitting her head open. Despite its sick enormity, it was also too beautiful to her.”
― Crossroads
― Crossroads
“there’s no more exquisite torture than hope.”
― Holly
― Holly
“Truth tends to stretch and bend out of shape to best fit its owner.”
― Good Bad Girl
― Good Bad Girl
“An old lady wandered over, smiled wide, liver spots and hanging skin, like the earth was calling the flesh to be buried but her brain was too stubborn to cede it.”
― We Begin at the End
― We Begin at the End
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