“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.”
― Letters to Milena
― Letters to Milena
“And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
“The past is so much safer, because whatever's in it has already happened. It can't be changed; so, in a way, there's nothing to dread.”
― The Heart Goes Last
― The Heart Goes Last
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