“For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories.”
― The Gum Thief
― The Gum Thief
“A shaft of moonlight illuminated a row of sentinel silver birch in a phosphorescent glow, appearing almost ethereal in the relative surrounding gloom. Boris had stopped again, his silhouette a stark black juxtaposition against the background of illuminated branches.”
― The Elephant Tree
― The Elephant Tree
“No art is possible without a dance with death, he wrote.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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