“Strictly speaking, we do not make decisions, decisions make us.”
― All the Names
― All the Names
“everything goes back to its beginnings, everything returns to chaos. Now,”
― All the Names
― All the Names
“Boredom is the only real tragedy for a writer; everything else is material.”
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“... we know that it is the search that gives meaning to any find and that one often has to travel a long way in order to arrive at what is near.”
― All the Names
― All the Names
“She told me she met the love of her life,” Zohra says at last, still staring out the window. “You read poems about it, you hear stories about it, you hear Sicilians talk about being struck by lightning. We know there’s no love of your life. Love isn’t terrifying like that. It’s walking the fucking dog so the other one can sleep in, it’s doing taxes, it’s cleaning the bathroom without hard feelings. It’s having an ally in life. It’s not fire, it’s not lightning. It’s what she always had with me. Isn’t it? But what if she’s right, Arthur? What if the Sicilians are right? That it’s this earth-shattering thing she felt? Something I’ve never felt. Have you?”
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