“I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
“I was more alone than if I had been alone.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“You can exclude the excluded middle, but when you ride through, on your way to a lonely and more certain place, out the window you'll see everyone you've ever known living there.”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
“Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?”
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“Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy. ”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
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