

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”
― Perestroika
― Perestroika

“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King

“Nobody teaches life anything.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera

“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King

“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
― The Pale King
― The Pale King
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