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He had an air of magnificent melancholy sophistication, as if his proper place were elsewhere, somewhere infinitely more compelling even than Brakebills, and he’d been confined to his present setting by a grotesque divine oversight, which
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“Plum's own romantic history so far had been pretty limited, with minimal drama. It was one area where she felt comfortable lagging behind her peers. But she prided herself on her powerful philosophical insights into other people's relationships.”
― The Magician's Land
― The Magician's Land
“and what if I travel
when all this rain passes
and park outside the fence
of our homestead
and breathe in the universe”
― Reaching Marrakesh
when all this rain passes
and park outside the fence
of our homestead
and breathe in the universe”
― Reaching Marrakesh
“Those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.”
― Eyeless in Gaza
― Eyeless in Gaza
“Cutters read the land like a text. They search the manuscript of the ground for irregularities in its narration. They know the plots and the images by heart. They can see where the punctuation goes. They are landscape grammarians, got the Ph.D. in reading dirt.”
― The Devil's Highway: A True Story
― The Devil's Highway: A True Story
“Of course they accused Marcão of having done it without provocation—that’s the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.”
― Speaker for the Dead
― Speaker for the Dead
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