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“Owing to the turning of streets and to the way edifices seem to abruptly block passage while artfully concealing narrow channels that wind around them, so that the pedestrian changes course without really thinking about it...the zone, according to Debord, "inclined toward atheism, oblivion, and the disorientation of habitual reflexes.”
― Lucy Sante

“Of course, he was one-eyed now and so he always kept half of his face hidden by a wide-brimmed hat or a strand of his hair.”
― Ingri d'Aulaire

“Our concern with history...is a concern with preformed images already imprinted in our brains, images at which we keep staring while the truth lies elsewhere, away from it all, somewhere as yet undiscovered.”
― W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz

“When a person has lived alone for a long time, the only way to confirm that they still exist is to express activities and things in an easily shared syntax: this face, these bones that walk, this mouth, this hand that writes.”
― Valeria Luiselli