- Awful is easy if you make it your one and only.
- Anna has eyes, not everyone has them. Most people just have holes in their faces, it's just biological, like pigs or fish. Plain ordinary eyes that don't mean very much.
- One of the things I wonder is: Do the dead want us to be dead too, or do they want us to be alive?
- Who knows wht's under a house. The house you live in is only a recent development in the history of the world. Before it was a house it could have been a jungle or a desert. A million years ago it might have been the middle of the ocean. You don't know. You only know the here and now. The rest you have to imagine.
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- I could see Da was in pain and that it was different from my pain. You could feel the ocean between us, with dark water freezing cold. Did someone say grief is an island? If they didn't say it, then I said it. It's my invention. You can look it up one day in the book of quotable quotes.
- Grief is an island. — Mathilda Savitch
- When Da leaves the room, I think about the island of grief. I wonder how large it is and how long it will take me to explore it. I wonder how long I've been here without even knowing it.
- The problem is, at a certain point you can't stop thinking even if you want to. I swear, sometimes you just wish you could go back into the dark like a primitive person. But you can't, that's the problem with evolution. Once you have a little bit of knowledge, more of it just keeps coming at you like birds around a bagel
- Smart people always turned out to be weaklings. Smart people are not going to be the ones to help you when you have to move a piano out of the house.
- All people are children when they sleep.
- There are beautiful things in the world and there are sad things and when they come together they make a star. The lights is far away and the strangest part is that the light is inside you. But no matter how hard you look you can never see the star itself, you only see the reflection of it on a lake, which is also inside you.
- If I want him to hear me I'll have to shout. Because when two people are in love you basically have to become an intruder if you want their attention.
- There's all sorts of ways to kill someone. You don't need a gun or a knife or even your hands. Some people can do it with their minds alone. Sometimes you just have to wish someone was dead and then it happens for real.
- "One night," he says. That's what people always say, and then it turns into infinity.
- I want something else, but the words for it haven't been invented yet.
- I'm scribbling away, things that happened, things that were said. But they're just words now, they can't hurt anyone. At least not mortally. I've heard it said words can kill, but it's not true. You can't kill something that's already dead. Like the past is. You can't make something that's happened not happen. You just have to live with it, whether it's something you've done or something someone else has done to you.
- A person's heart is a disgusting thing. You almost can't look at it.
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