Harry

“他現在知道精神與物質的界限不能分得這麼清。言語究竟沒有用。久久的握著手，就是較妥帖的安慰，因為會說話的人很少，真正有話說的人還要少。”
― Eileen Chang, Love in a Fallen City

“I'm writing a book on magic”, I explain, and I'm asked, “Real magic?” By real magic people mean miracles, thaumaturgical acts, and supernatural powers. “No”, I answer: “Conjuring tricks, not real magic”. Real magic, in other words, refers to the magic that is not real, while the magic that is real, that can actually be done, is not real magic.”
― Lee Siegel, Net of Magic: Wonders and Deceptions in India

“Days go by when I do nothing but underline the damp edge of myself.”
― Mary Szybist, Incarnadine: Poems

“There was a poem with that mood by Pasternak: “Don’t sleep, don’t sleep, artist.” It sounded better in Russian, because the word for “artist” had three syllables, it was an amphibrach, like “spaghetti,” or “appendix.” Don’t sleep, don’t sleep, gorilla, I thought as I went down the elevator to the subway platform.”
― Elif Batuman, The Idiot