Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed. Like Schrödinger’s cat inside a box you can never ever open.
Despair is as attractive as cold sores.
Creation unfolds, around us, despite us and through us, at the speed of days and nights, and we like to call it love
Coupling is frenzy; decoupling is farce.
Autumn is leaving its mellowness behind for its spiky, rotted stage. Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.
A weapon men use against women is the refusal to take them seriously.
The novelist is more like a pregnant woman who delivers her own child unaided. A messy procedure, with lots of groaning.
Сознание не терпит пустоты, а потому склонно населять ее призраками.
The silences after his last gasp were sung together by a blackbird. I lay there, my eyes unable to close. His were unable to open. I listed the places where I hurt, and how much. My loins felt ripped....
The last of the cherry blossom. On the tree, itturns ever more perfect. And when it’s perfect, it falls. And then of course once it hits the
Revolting’ was the last word I ever spoke as someone who’d never kissed a girl.
Often I think boys don’t become men. Boys just get papier-mâchéd inside a man’s mask. Sometimes you can tell the boy is still in there.
Mrs. Todds my English teacher gives an automatic if anyone ever writes I woke up and it was all a dream at the end of a story. She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it's a cop...
His skin’s so tanned he could be Turkish or something
But it’s not time that matters. It felt … like a secret place just us two knew about.
That human hunger birthed the Civ'lize, but human hunger killed it too.
¿Te das cuenta, verdad, mi querido lector? Estaba metido en un asilo de película de serie B. Cuanto más rabiaba y despotricaba, más demostraba que debería estar donde estaba.
Magic is merely normality that you’re not yet used to.
We live on, as long as there are people to live on in.
To enslave an individual troubles your consciences, Archivist, but to enslave a clone is no more troubling than owning the latest six-wheeler ford, ethically. Because you cannot discern our difference...