54 quotes found
“Job understood that he was nothing more than Gods invention and so too was his suffering”
“Time passes. I drift in and out. As if I cease to be, until I remember to exist again.”
“In the chain of events, it is arbitrary to be sentimental about the passing of any one link.”
“As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author.”
“The bacteria of resentment bred: distance turned to distrust; distrust turned to bitterness; bitterness to hate, which is, after all, a kind of grievous love”
“Im a bit-part actor in my own life”
“To reread a book is to read a different book. The reader is different. The meaning is different.”
“Inhumanity is part of humanity as much as suffering is a part of stories. Cruelty is written in the human script.”
“Is cruelty still cruel if it is necessary? Is cruelty still cruel if it is part of a lie?”
“These are the things you dont say, even to someone you love.”
“He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.”
“To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.”
“Silent is an anagram of listen.”
“The silence was pregnant with noise, with muted fury, with questions the father found too disgusting to frame and with answers to which the son was incapable of giving voice.”
“The only simple truth is that there is nothing simple in this complex universe. Everything relates. Everything connects”
“Wouldnt a no one do as well as a someone about whom nothing can be said?”
“Being gay is not just what I do, but who I am. It is part of how I choose to live my life even if I never chose.”
“Even when I press against him his presence is too far away.”
“He did it because he could not help himself, which explains everything and nothing”
“Those who perpetrate stories must act cruelly.”
