Keely

“She removes herself from her family's company by saying very little, while at the same time maintaining a semblance of participation with a smile.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“Treason is too narrowly defined to suit us. Our courts call it treason when a restaurant-keeper helps a German flier to escape, but nobody calls it treason when a congressman helps a touchy issue to escape "until after the elections are over." We hang a man for the first kind of treason; we reelect a man for the second.”
― E.B. White

“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

“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