“Maybe that's where all the other colours are hiding - in a dimenson of the world we just can't see, between our sky and the rest of the universe.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
“Pretend you're a kid again and you don't even know what's good. Just try for the sake of trying. For the sake of having fun.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
“You are in your youth walking down a long road that will branch and branch again, and your life is full of choices with huge and unpredictable consequences, and you rarely get to come back to choose the other route. You are making something, a life, a self, and it is an intensely creative task as well as one at which it is more than possible to fail, a little, a lot, miserably, fatally.”
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
― Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“Memories tell a story, if you look hard enough. Because the purpose of memory, I would argue, it to remind us how to live" -Leigh”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
“Before me lay a body grayer than a sketch. Someone had applied makeup and colors to try to make it look alive. I didn’t cry. That was not my mother. My mother is free in the sky. She doesn’t have the burden of a human body, is not made up of a single dot of gray. My mother is a bird.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
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