“Misery melts him down by day, and sleep at night. His preoccupation with his business day has made his sleep insoluble.”
― Nightwood
― Nightwood
“Oliver, I’m happy,” I said.
He looked at me in wonderment. “You’re just horny.”
― Call Me By Your Name
He looked at me in wonderment. “You’re just horny.”
― Call Me By Your Name
“It was absurd that you could just copy what the other person in your house was doing and it would make life more normal, more stable.”
― Strong Female Character
― Strong Female Character
“Where is my world? he was wanting to know, and where the hell am I if I can’t locate it?”
― Sometimes a Great Notion
― Sometimes a Great Notion
“Certain facts were apparent: dark; cold; thundering boots; quilts; pillow; light under the door—the materials of reality—but I could not pin these materials down in time. And the raw materials of reality without that glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.”
― Sometimes a Great Notion
― Sometimes a Great Notion
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