“She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness.”
― NOS4A2
― NOS4A2
“I thought how that was wrong and terrible and beautiful all at the same time.”
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“I stared hard, trying to find a pattern. Thinking if I kept looking hard enough, maybe the pieces of the world would fit back together into something I could understand.”
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
― Tell the Wolves I'm Home
“The difference between childhood and adulthood, Vic had come to believe, was the difference between imagination and resignation. You traded one for the other and lost your way.”
― NOS4A2
― NOS4A2
“Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?”
― NOS4A2
― NOS4A2
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