“On, there are so many lives. How we wish we could live them concurrently instead of one by one by one. We could select the best pieces of each, stringing them together like a strand of pearls. But that's not how it works. A human life is a beautiful mess.”
― Elsewhere
― Elsewhere
“I've been trying to fit everything in, trying to get to the end before it's too late, but I see now how badly I've deceived myself. Words do not allow such things. The closer you come to the end, the more there is to say. The end is only imaginary, a destination you invent to keep yourself going, but a point comes when you realize you will never get there. You might have to stop, but that is only because you have run out of time. You stop, but that does not mean you have come to an end.”
― In the Country of Last Things
― In the Country of Last Things
“I guess this was what it felt like to love someone and feel like you had lost them. Even when you were still holding them in your arms.”
― Beautiful Creatures
― Beautiful Creatures
“The Portuguese call it saudade: a longing for something so indefinite as to be indefinable. Love affairs, miseries of life, the way things were, people already dead, those who left and the ocean that tossed them on the shores of a different land — all things born of the soul that can only be felt.”
― Barnacle Love
― Barnacle Love
“I’ll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won’t rain.”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won’t rain.”
― Loading Mercury With a Pitchfork
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