a collection of quotes from books i like or from texts i am paying out the ass to read and analyze.
There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds.
You’ll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you’ll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we’ll have a lot more of them. And they’ll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.
With these people I’ll have to be careful. Always careful. With all people I’ll have to be careful…
Love has got complicated, tied up with promises, bruised with plans, dogged with an ending that nobody wants - when all love is, is what it always is - that you look at me and want me and I don’t turn away.
The past is magnetic. It draws us in. We cannot help ourselves and, as with other things that we cannot help in ourselves, we make up elaborate explanations, reasonable rational explanations, to chant away the powerful things that don’t belong to us.
I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can’t give up love.
I am not wounded unless you wound me.
I am not strong unless you are my strength.
You were sun and moon to me.
It sometimes gave the illusion of happiness, but I was not happy, not in the same way. It’s just that the pain was taken away.
I’ve always tried to happen to life; but it’s time I let life happen to me.
