

“A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― The Waste Land
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
― The Waste Land

“Life: a constellation of vital phenomena—organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation.”
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena
― A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

“Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable.”
― Fall On Your Knees
― Fall On Your Knees

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby

“I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.”
― The Sisters Brothers
― The Sisters Brothers

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