I was a circumstance, Hannah, that's all. Good or bad - and I assure you that I remain extremely and appallingly bad - there are many angels because there were once many gods, pushing, pulling, hiding...
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss—an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife...
I work in my study, taking the collections of words that people send me and making small adjustments to them, changing something here and there, checking everything is in order and putting a part of m...
If a door isn’t there then you can’t hope to go through it, but if it’s there but always locked, then you’re trapped. Someone is keeping the door shut.
You love because you want to need someone the way you did when you were a child, and have them need you too. You eat well because the intensity of taste reminds you of a need satisfied, a pain relieve...
You know when you've got nothing in particular to do, nothing to stay awake for? When your life is just routine and it doesn't feel like it belongs to you, how you feel tired and listless and everythi...
There is no beginning. We are always in the middle.
All non-smokers seem to live in the belief that smokers have wandered naively through life, bereft of the knowledge that their habit is extremely bad for them.
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It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.
Being me is not a fate everyone would enjoy. There are risks, and frequent disappointments. I'm not all that keen on the arrangement myself, to be honest.
My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.
Power that affects nothing is mere vanity.
Hell is not a place. It’s not a noun, child. It’s a verb.
The angel we named God banned representations of himself, even the writing of his name, trying to halt the process of literalization—but in the end it became inevitable. The angel found himself at the...
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?I’d do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been.Disbeli...
The kind of beards which make you look like you've glued a racoon to your face. The
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?
In your twenties you unquestioningly believe you're writing in pencil, a striking first draft. You do things with such confidence. You know you're so strong, so individual, wholly unique: that you hav...
It's simply the way things are when people come together out of hurt rather than happiness. When you try to use people as band-aids you merely reinfect the wound, and every moment you spend with them...
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