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Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

The greatest love letters are always encoded for the one and not the many.

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.

Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.

Known.
Some.
Call.
Is.
Air.
Am?

Who has never killed an hour? ...

Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.

There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay.

Love's love in her blackest season.

Sometimes it's just silent ... No sound at all.
'Does that scare you?'
Chad nods.
'Why?' asks his father.
'It's like something's waiting.

Death, it turns out, is the mother of all conflicts.

Stars to live by. Stars to steer by. Stars to die by.

I was twelve miles from no where.

He loved more than anything to fly. His sole conflict was with gravity.

Hopefully you'll be able to make sense of what I can represent though still fail to understand.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

Unoccupied space will never cease to change simply because nothing forbids it to do so.

I'm not independently wealthy.

Since when did you bring a gun?" Navidson asks, crouching near the door.
"Are you kidding me? This place is scary.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.

I miss u i love you
there's no second ive lived you can't call your own

Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.

Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.

'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.

'Lord of the Rings' was a set of books in which the world had been conceived before the characters were placed within that context.

Get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there. p. 591

Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day
without relief or explanation.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. it's in your soul.

One glance at her, even now in the glass of my mind, and I want to take off and travel with her.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

...recogniz[ing] the dangerous influence the unknown naturally has on everyone." P.60

I must read.
I must read.
I must read.

The ruminations are mine, let the world be yours.

I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.

Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
'Be not like me. I am alone.'
And it might be heard.

Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.

I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.

I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys.

Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?

The finest act of seeing is necessarily always the act of not seeing something else.

...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.

Through all the windows I only see infinity.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.

I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?

Is it possible to love something so much, you imagine it wants to destroy you only because it has denied you?

Also remember, love inhabits more than just the heart and mind. If need be it can take shelter in a big toe.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.
Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?

Immensely clever story, and quite creepy, in a delightfully scary way.

Our newness lies only in parts rearranged.

Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.

You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember: we are only God's echoes and God is Narcissus.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of 'not knowing.

One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.

The world only mattered because people lived there and sometimes, in spite of the pain, tragedy, and degradation, even managed to triumph there.

And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.

Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it.

If not, let me offer you some instruction in at least one area: get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there.

Words need worlds in order to be worlds. worlds though don't need words in order to be worlds.

I'm so tired. Sleep's been stalking me for too long to remember. Inevitable I suppose.

My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms.

The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. [ ] but his stanza is not completely empty [ * ]

All I have to do is extend my hand but I can't run that far.

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff.

It's too annoying. Too me.

It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.

for as leaves are to limbs, so are your words to your soul

She said memories mean all, but they are all dead.

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.