Forever, Emily Dickinson said, is composed of nows. But how do you inhabit the now you are in? How do you stop the ghosts of all the other nows from getting in? How, in short, do you live?
“Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior.” “Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir.”
― Undermajordomo Minor
― Undermajordomo Minor
“The death of a dream can be, in a way, sadder than that of a living being.”
― With The Beatles
― With The Beatles
“Everyone’s gotten far too comfortable if you ask me,” she says loudly. “Expecting everything to stay the same when you don’t even fight for it. You’d all be lost with Kelly’s and you know it. I thought I knew the people in this village, I thought I was proud to call them my neighbors. But all I’m seeing is a bunch of people giving up.”
― The Matchmaker
― The Matchmaker
“You are a pastel-colored Persian carpet, and loneliness is a Bordeaux wine stain that won’t come out”
― Men Without Women: Stories
― Men Without Women: Stories
“The more powerful they are, the more they have to lose to their fears.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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