“You had to run with a night like this, so the sadness could not hurt.”
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
― Something Wicked This Way Comes
“The apartment below mine had the only balcony of the house. I saw a girl standing on it, completely submerged in the pool of autumn twilight. She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together.”
― A Girl I Knew
― A Girl I Knew
“There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.”
― The Lathe of Heaven / The Dispossessed / The Wind's Twelve Quarters
― The Lathe of Heaven / The Dispossessed / The Wind's Twelve Quarters
“and what shall I have to dream of when I have been so happy in reality beside you!”
― White Nights
― White Nights
“I'm cold and free and the smartest man in the world, and this time they're going to know it, I promise you. I promise you that.”
― Soon I Will Be Invincible
― Soon I Will Be Invincible
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