I was thinking earlier that to know this city you must first become penniless, because pennilessness (real pennilessness, I mean not having $2 for the subway) forces you to walk everywhere and you see the city best on foot.
If nothing else, it’s pleasant to consider the possibility. He likes the thought of ships moving over the water, toward another world just out of sight.
What she aspired to was a kind of delirious perfection. What Lilia wanted was to travel, but not only that; she wanted to be a citizen of everywhere, free-wheeling and capable of instant flight.
To survive is not enough. To simply exist… is not enough!’ – Roga Danar
All of this,’ the prophet said, serene, ‘all of our activities, Sayid, you must understand this, all of your suffering, it’s all part of a greater plan.”You’d be surprised at how little comfort I take from that notion.
Adulthood’s full of ghosts… High-functioning sleepwalkers, essentially.
The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?
He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.
Are you asking if I believe in ghosts?””I don’t know. Maybe. Yes.””Of course not. Imagine how many there’d be.””Yes,” Kirsten said, “that’s exactly it.
If you write literary fiction that’s set partly in the future, you’re apparently a sci-fi writer … I think of it as being more of a story about what remains after we lose everything and the importance of art in our lives.
She works on her never-ending project for hours at a time. In art school they talked about day jobs in tones of horror. She never would have imagined that her day job would be the calmest and least cluttered part of her life.
Of course,” the cabbie said, “you don’t know where you’re going unless you know where you’re going.
The more we know about the former world, the better we’ll understand what happened when it fell.