"I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?"

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Lonely Quotes #Memories Quotes #Men Quotes

“You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don't dream about.”
“I don't remember ever having finished a book.”
“In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.”

Source : David Markson (1995). “Wittgenstein's mistress”, Dalkey Archive Pr
“There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.”
“And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and gratuitous feasting, and gratuitous description of clothes, and gratuitous heraldry, because very little of this is necessary to advance the plot. But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.”
“Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.”
“Fenworth owned a world-famous library. More rooms held books than beds. Pillows stuffed in niches and comfortable chairs scattered throughout each room offered abundant paces to curl up and read.”
“When I have no idea what to do with how I'm feeling, I generally make a song out of it.”

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