“It was the furthest thing in the world from the rosy-fingered dawn of poetry and old Technicolor movies; this was an anti-dawn, damp and as pale as the cheek of a day-old corpse.”
― Mr. Mercedes
― Mr. Mercedes
“For humans-trapped in biology-there was no mercy: we lived a while, we fussed around for a bit and died, we rotted in the ground like garbage. Time destroyed us all soon enough. But to destroy, or lose, a deathless thing-to break bonds stronger than the temporal-was a metaphysical uncoupling all its own, a startling new flavor of despair.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
“One of the minor tragedies of human memory is our inability to unwatch movies we’d love to see (again) for the first time.”
― Eating the Dinosaur
― Eating the Dinosaur
“I never feel weird about being the main character in the nontransferable, nonexistent movie of my life. That’s totally fine. What makes me nervous is a growing suspicion that this movie is fucked up and devoid of meaning. The auteur is a nihilist.”
― I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains
― I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains
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