Keely

“And so it was that before another synapse could fire within my bad-off labyrinthine brain, he was already lying on the floor.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“The children, however, just accepted it. They raced through the closet. They played in it. They inhabited it. They denied paradox by swallowing it whole. Paradox, after all, is two irreconcilable truths. But children do not know the laws of the world well enough yet to fear the ramifications of the irreconcilable.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Slowly but surely, I grew more and more disoriented, increasingly more detached from the world, something sad and awful straining around the edges of my mouth, surfacing in my eyes.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“But I saw a strange glimmer everywhere, confined to the sharp oscillations of yellow & blue, as if my retinal view suddenly included along with those reflective blessings of light, an unearthly collusion with scent & sound, registering all possibilities of harm, every threat, every move, even with all that grinning and meeting and din. A thousand and one possible claws.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves