I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.
“To live in a city is to live the life that it was built for, to adapt to its schedule and rhythms, to move within the transit layout made for you during the morning and evening rush, winding through the crowds of fellow commuters. To live in a city is to consume its offerings. To eat at its restaurants. To drink at its bars. To shop at its stores. To pay its sales taxes. To give a dollar to its homeless.
To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?”
― Severance
To live in a city is to take part in and to propagate its impossible systems. To wake up. To go to work in the morning. It is also to take pleasure in those systems because, otherwise, who could repeat the same routines, year in, year out?”
― Severance
“She hadn't realized how long it takes to become somebody else, or how lonely it can be living in a world not meant for you.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“In fact I would be content to live in a humble wooden cabin on the edge of an ocean or a lake, but somehow I looked down on myself for not having a bigger dream.”
― Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3
― Real Estate: Living Autobiography 3
“This big ol' world and we only get to go through it once. The saddest thing there is, you ask me.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
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