She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in a woman.
A life spent shaping a world I want Jackson to inherit, not one I fear Jackson shall inherit, this strikes me as a life worth the living.
How could I know a famished heart will eat its mind? Can kill its body?
Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It’s never reasonless and its reason’s not usually nice.
I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.
Humans live in a pit of cheating, exploiting, hurting, incarcerating. Every time, the species wastes some part of what it could be. This waste is poisonous.
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
Men invented money Women invented mutual aid.
The weak are meat the strong do eat.
Lying’s wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
If your words’re true, they’re armed.
There are so many cities in every single city.
I lost my balance when the train pulled away, but a human crumple zone buffered my fall. We stayed like that, half fallen. Diagonal People.
Wars are never cured, they just go into remission for a few years.
I’ve become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.
The spirit was willing but the flesh was weak.
Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions?
The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.
Leaves turned to soil beneath my feet. Thus it is, trees eat themselves.
Don’t bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.