“They say you know nothing at eighteen. But there are things you know at eighteen that you will never know again.”
― Mayflies
― Mayflies
“I was worst to the one I loved best.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“What do you call a heart that is simultaneously full and breaking? Maybe there's no word for it, but for some reason, it makes me think of rain falling through sunlight.”
― Upgrade
― Upgrade
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD”
― Recursion
― Recursion
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