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"I can’t help it. I’m not strong enough to carry around a thing like this. I keep trying to get my arms around it, but it’s too big for me, David, it’s too heavy, and I can’t even lift it off the ground."

-Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions.

"Hector had already seen that stone, and he knew that it didn’t exist, that the life they were about to build for themselves was founded on an illusion."

-Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions.

"Again and again, I saw them as they were, not as they were meant to be."

-Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions.

"LANDING TURNED OUT to be less difficult for me than taking off."

-Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions.

"As he put it in his journal that night: If I mean to save my life, then I have to come within an inch of destroying it."

-Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions.

"If there was no hole in that skull now, it was only because I was stupid and lucky, because for once in my life my luck had won out over my stupidity."

-Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions.

"There might have been other articles and chapters written about Hector over the years, but I wasn’t aware of them. I only had what was in the box, and what was in the box was all I had managed to find."

-Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions.

"In that one small gesture—the hand hovering in the air, the open palm no more than an inch from the girl’s head—we understand that Hector has been reduced to nothing."

-Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions.

"Half of the films were within driving distance of my house."

-Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions.