“We always say we are beneath the stars. We aren't, of course—there is no up or down, and anyway the stars surround us. But we say we are beneath them, which is nice. So often English glorifies the human—we are whos, other animals are that—but English puts us beneath the stars, at least.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
“That's the power of literature, you know, it can act like little love letters between two people who can only explain their feelings by pointing at other people's.”
― Anxious People
― Anxious People
“In the end, your belly was your emperor.”
― Pachinko
― Pachinko
“Just because someone has power over you doesn’t mean they’re going to use it to hurt you. People who believe that tend to either be:
People who have been victims of that sort of behavior, or . . .
People who, if given power, will use it to hurt you.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
People who have been victims of that sort of behavior, or . . .
People who, if given power, will use it to hurt you.”
― An Absolutely Remarkable Thing
“I still have my dad's phone. I keep it and a charging cord hidden in Harold's trunk next to the spare tire. A ton of pictures on his phone were of leafless branches dividing up the sky, like the view I had as we floated under that sycamore tree. I always wondered what he saw in that, in the split-apart sky.”
― Turtles All the Way Down
― Turtles All the Way Down
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