“He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“It was precisely these scenes he missed the most from his own life with Willem, the forgettable, in-between moments in which nothing seemed to be happening but whose absence was singularly unfillable.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“Il y a cet entassement des corps dans le wagon cette lancinante douleur dans le genou droit. Les jours les nuits. Je fais un effort et j'essaye de compter les jours de compter les nuits. Ca m'aidera peut-être à y voir clair. Quatre jours cinq nuits. Mais j'ai dû mal compter ou alors il y a des jours qui se sont changés en nuits. J'ai des nuits en trop des nuits à revendre.”
― The Long Voyage
― The Long Voyage
“He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.”
― The Magic Mountain
― The Magic Mountain
“My life was a glass of water, and she was a single drop of food coloring.”
― Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
― Dancing at the Pity Party: A Dead Mom Graphic Memoir
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