“I feel a bit like a prisoner, not a prisoner of a place or people but of my own character, which by now has taken on its irrevocable form.”
― Lost in the Spanish Quarter
― Lost in the Spanish Quarter
“It’s not only themselves that the dead take away. They take a part of us, too: when living, they are inside us, and without them we carry a vacant space.”
― The Homemade God
― The Homemade God
“Who among us, in our lowest hour, can expect to be saved? Have you loved your life? Have you cherished each miraculous breath?”
― About Grace
― About Grace
“of its growing. I really must”
― Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
― Endgame: A Journal of the Seventy-Ninth Year
“The building stands, shackled at its heel to its shadow in the fading light, the only witness to the fact that no single person lives their own life; we all live each other’s together.”
― Fishbowl
― Fishbowl
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