"I knew the past wasn't real. It was only an idea, and the thing I'd wanted to touch, to brush against, the feeling I couldn't name - it just didn't exist. It was only an idea, too."

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Source : Nic Pizzolatto (2011). “Galveston: A Novel”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

Nic Pizzolatto

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“While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.”
“If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.”
“Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.”
“I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.”
“Are you crazy?" I said. "Crazy about you." "Patch!" "Don't worry, we've got time." "How do you know?" He staggered back a step, with his hand over his heart. "Your lack of faith hurts.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.538, Simon and Schuster
“I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in the machinery of civilized life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?”

Source : William Allingham (1967). “William Allingham's diary”, Centaur Press
“God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.”
“This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.”

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