La perfección es algo superficial. Epidérmico. Si uno rasca un poco, comienza a ver tonalidades más oscuras. Al llegar al hueso la oscuridad es total.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. —GEORGE ORWELL, 1984
Are you happy in your life?
Management: Thank you for the support and counsel. Angela Cheng Caplan and Joel VanderKloot: You’re rock stars. So grateful to have you in my corner. A very special thanks to Jacque Ben-Zekry for a wo...
When you were a child, I didn't tell you about the evil in the world, all that lay in wait.
Because as fucked as everything is, there is no place I’d rather be than with this Daniela, this Charlie. If one tiny thing were different, they wouldn’t be the people I love.
The world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely.
All your life you’re told you’re unique. An individual. That no one on the planet is just like you. It’s humanity’s anthem. But that isn’t true for me anymore.
Ésa es la belleza de la juventud. Hay una levedad que permea en todo porque todavía no has tomado esas malditas decisiones, no te has comprometido con ningún sendero, y el camino delante de ti se abre...
He thought of all the quaint Victorian houses in Wayward Pines and of all the families who lived inside them. How many residents—inmates—kept up a strong, carefree countenance during the day, but then...
What a miracle it is to have people to come home to every day. To be loved. To be expected. I thought I appreciated every moment, but sitting here in the cold, I know I took it all for granted. And ho...
Did he also instruct you not to bother calling me ahead of time to let me know the feds would be rolling up in my world? Or was that all you? You think I had some obligation to— Courtesy, Ethan. Court...
Their affair had been three of the most intense, reckless, terrifying, happy, alive months of his life. Like how he imagined being on heroin felt if the high never ended, if every syringe didn’t also...
Sometimes we have to do things we don’t want to. Why? Because they’re the right things.
You’re saying that, out of an infinite number of realities, I intentionally picked this shithole? Not intentionally. Maybe it’s a reflection of what you were feeling at the moment you opened the door.
Life with a cheat code isn’t life. Our existence isn’t something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That’s what it is to be human—the beauty and the pain, each meaningless withou...
There’s a theory in the field of aesthetics called the uncanny valley. It holds that when something looks almost like a human being—a mannequin or humanlike robot—it creates revulsion in the observer,...
Life is too hard and too short not to be with the one you love. So choose me.
Warm, the sky above a deep and cloudless cobalt. The man checked the pockets of his slacks, and then of his single-breasted coat. No wallet. No money clip. No ID. No keys. No phone. Just a small Swiss...
Following a tragedy, grief comes in waves, each bigger than the previous, each carrying a new component of pain.
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