

“All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”
― Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
― Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

“When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the abduction, the accident. Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown. Perhaps fantasy is what you fill up maps with rather than saying that they too contain the unknown.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and the sensation of desire, though often it is the desire between us and the object of desire that fills the space in between with the blue of longing.”
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost
― A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”
― American Gods
― American Gods
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