“We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive.”
― The Collected Stories
― The Collected Stories
“It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.”
― Middlesex
― Middlesex
“My house fly theory is related to my theory about why time seems to go faster as you get older."
"Why's that?" the girl asked.
"It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.”
― The Marriage Plot
"Why's that?" the girl asked.
"It's proportional," Leonard explained. "When you're five, you've only been alive a couple thousand days. But by the time you're fifty, you've lived around twenty thousand days. So a day when you're five seems longer because it's a greater percentage of the whole.”
― The Marriage Plot
“She was a large, disordered woman, like a child's drawing that didn't stay within the lines.”
― The Marriage Plot
― The Marriage Plot
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