- ““Okay,” he said after forever. “Maybe okay will be our always.””
- “But I believe in true love, you know? I don't believe that everybody gets to keep their eyes or not get sick or whatever, but everybody should have true love, and it should last at least as long as your life does.”
- “Let us go then, you and I, / When the evening sky is spread out against the sky / Like a patient etherized upon a table.’ 'Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets. / The muttering retreats / Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels / And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: / Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent / To lead you to an overwhelming question… / Oh, do not ask, “What is it?” / Let us go and make our visit.”
- “I am,” he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. “I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasures of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
- “You clench your teeth. You look up. You tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them, and you will be nothing but A sadness in their lives and you must not become a mere sadness, so you will not cry, and you say this to yourself while looking up at the ceiling, and then you swallow even though your throat does not want to close and you look at the person who loves you and smile.”
- “There is no honor in dying of”
- “I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed.”
- “nostalgia is a side effect of dying.”
- “I just want to be enough for you, but I never can be. This can never be enough for you.But this is all you get. You get me, and your family, and this world. This is your life. I'm sorry if it sucks. But you're not going to be the first man on Mars, and you're not going to be an NBA star, and you're not going to hunt Nazis.”
- “so much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow / glazed with rain / water / beside the white / chickens.”
- “But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
- “My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into constellation.”
- “We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.”
apr 20 2014 ∞
jun 29 2015 +