A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies. —Gustave Flaubert
I was fairly certain that none of it had anything to do with not being able to remember the name of my cat. —David Markson Wittgenstein’s Mistress
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. —Buddha
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together. ―Jean-Paul Sartre Nausea
The passageway opens to a whole marvelous hidden room…which then has an even smaller door that leads to two more levels! It was deja vu for me because in my dreams I am always stumbling upon whole new wings of my house. (Do you dream that too?) —Katwise Blog March 22,2013 (on Luna Parc)
Only the wind spoke, for a long while.
—China Mieville Railsea
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. —Raymond Chandler The Long Goodbye
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. —Charlotte Whitton
I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else. ―Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Don’t let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don’t let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency. —Aesop
