“I could study you for a lifetime, carrying all your peculiarities and discretions in the webs of my spidery palms, and still feel empty-handed”
― Alone With You in the Ether
― Alone With You in the Ether
“I tell myself that I want to live a happy life, and that the circumstances for happiness just haven't arisen. But what if that's not true? What if I'm the one who can't let myself be happy? Because I'm scared, or I prefer to wallow in self-pity, or I don't believe I deserve good things, or some other reason. Whenever something good happens to me I always find myself thinking: I wonder how long it will be until this turns out badly. And I almost want the worst to happen sooner, sooner rather than later, and if possibile straight away, so at least I don't have to feel anxious about it anymore.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Pero qué es el amor sino descubrirse a uno mismo ante la compañía ajena, que te miren fijamente como si supieran algo de ti que tú no sabes.”
― No todo el mundo
― No todo el mundo
“Se quedan tumbados en silencio y parece que escuchan cómo aquellos que fueron, cómo las relaciones que tuvieron, van saliendo del cuarto de puntillas para dejarlos solos.”
― No todo el mundo
― No todo el mundo
“I don't believe in answers. I don't believe in big sweeping philosophies. All the great men of history tried to make these absolute laws, answer all the big questions, and they were always wrong. There's no big answers out there, not that we can understand. I think the thing is just to somehow accept that life doesn't always make sense. Terrible things can happen. It's ridiculous to try to spin it. I mean, maybe in the grand sense, you know, when we all come out to take our bows at the end, it'll all seem logical and wonderful. But in the meantime, life can fucking hurt. We need to be there for each other. That's the real magical act--making someone a sandwich, cleaning the flat.”
― The Book of the Most Precious Substance
― The Book of the Most Precious Substance
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