“The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so terribly eager to see and hear and let him (the son) know he was seen and heard, the son had become a steadily more and more hidden boy, toward the wraith's life's end; and no one else in the wraith and the boy's nuclear family would see or acknowledge this, the fact that the graceful and marvelous boy was disappearing, right before their eyes. They looked but did not see his invisibility.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“I am not what you see and hear.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
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