The divine is always abominable.”Houses Under The Sea
You think one’s any different from the next? I mean, when it comes right down to brass tacks, people killing each other since they figured out how, that’s all. Give them pretty names and numbers, but it’s all the same to the worms.
I loved this place when I was a kid. I still love it, but when I was a kid I’d take the bus down here and spend all day long reading in this room.
Originality is the most deadly mirage in all of art. You can chase it from now until doomsday, and you’ll only find yourself lost and dying of thirst.
After Abalyn said what she said, I panicked. Someone tells me I can’t remember what I definitely do remember, and sometimes I panic. I’m not as used to it as I often pretend. As I pretend to be used to it, I mean to say. The false memories.
Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.
Making a story from the messy thoughts and half-thoughts in her head, building a world and lives and taking them apart again, fitting the pieces together another way until it feels right, as right as she can make it feel.
You could have kept on driving and never looked back. No one’s ever had to stop for me. Or even hear me. Anyway, you did, and now I’m afraid the time for choice is behind us both.
That’s another sort of being haunted: starting something and never finishing it.
A phenomenon that might seem only backwards or silly when expressed at a social level becomes madness at the individual level.
Time is your cathedral. You know the present is only a pretty illusion in the minds of men. And I think you know that nothing has ever passed away, not entirely.
I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It’s entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences.
It’s a myth that crazy people don’t know they’re crazy. Many of us are surely as capable of epiphany and introspection as anyone else, maybe more so. I suspect we spend far more time thinking about our thoughts than do sane people.
You love someone. You don’t leave her to drown. And you don’t tell her she’s crazier than she already knows that she is!