Passed—Snoopy, Ronald McDonald,
Overly sensitive to the souls of rooms and objects, the emanations
Over to the Asia Society, and now she’s out doing a bit of Christmas shopping. She says you, ah, you’re meeting her later tonight?
It seemed that the whole past was redefined and brought into focus by this moment,
It felt like the waking-up moment between dream and daylight where everything merged and mingled just as it was about to change, all in the same, fluid, euphoric slide:
Isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying...
Installed herself as Wedding Obergruppenführer.
In whatever wink of consciousness that remained to me I felt I understood the secret grandeur of dying, all the knowledge held back from all humankind until the very end: no pain, no fear, magnificent...
If bad can sometimes come from good actions—? where does it ever say, anywhere, that only bad can come from bad actions? Maybe sometimes—the wrong way is the right way? You can take the wrong path and...
How can I see so clearly that everything I love or care about is illusion, and yet—for me, anyway—all that’s worth living for lies in that charm?
His subconscious mind knocked loose from its perch and flapping in the hollow corridors of his skull as erratically as a bat
Harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived.
Had something to say? At any rate. We left our rooms pretty much
Futile
Furniture polish: 16 parts beeswax, 4 parts resin, 1 part Venice turpentine,
Fact it seemed we had been doing things, such as stringing necklaces of rainbow-colored candy while the radio played Belle and Sebastian
Exactly that girl, not the prettiest, but the no-makeup and kind of ordinary-looking girl he’d chosen to be happy
Distracted themselves with all kinds of gadgets and devices, flooding themselves incessantly with information and texts and communication and entertainment from every direction to try to make themselv...
Despite his faults, which were numerous and spectacular, the reason I’d liked Boris and felt happy around him from almost the moment I’d met him was that he was never afraid. You didn’t meet many peop...
But the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.