Go with it. Be confident and the world responds to your confidence, rewards your faith.
People can handle an unjust world; it’s when the world becomes arbitrary and inexplicable that order breaks down.
She was asleep, that blond hair swirled like butter on the pillow beneath her
Shit. Claire riffles through worst-case scenarios: The pay is in cocaine;
Zo gaat het wanneer je je verliest in dromen, dacht hij: je droomt van het een, je droomt van het ander en voor je het weet heb je je hele leven verslapen.
Has anyone ever been more lovesick than a zombie, that pale, dull metaphor for love, all animal craving and lurching, outstretched arms, his very existence a sonnet about how much he wants those brain...
A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea. That’s only three. Alvis finished his wine. You have to do disappointment twice.
All we have is the story we tell.
And I wonder if we don't live like waterseeking a levela low beduntil one day we just go dry.I wonder if a creek ever realizesit has made its own grave.
And if a moment exists only in one's perception anyway, then perhaps the rush of feeling he has now is THE MOMENT, and not merely its shadow.
Guterak looked over. Hey, you got your hair cut. Yeah. Remy put the cap back on. What made you do that? I shot myself in the head last night. Well. Paul drove quietly for a moment, staring straight ah...
He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.
He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.
Pasquale considered his friend’s face. It had such an open quality, was such a clearly American face, like Dee’s face, like Michael Deane’s face. He believed he could spot an American anywhere by that...
Who isn't crazy sometimes? Who hasn't driven around a block hoping a certain person will come out; who hasn't haunted a certain coffee shop, or stared obsessively at an old picture; who hasn't toiled...
Mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it. Pasquale waited until the
The more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe
After she disappeared inside the hotel, Pasquale entertained the unwieldy thought that he’d somehow summoned her, that after years of living in this place, after months of grief and loneliness and wai...
And when our lives do begin? I mean, the exciting part, the action? It's all so fast.
Some memories remain close; you can shut your eyes and find yourself back in them. But there are second-person memories, too, distant you memories, and these are trickier: you watch yourself in disbel...
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