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“On a bench a toad kept him company: "A slaughterhouse aesthetic must exist.”
― The Water Statues
― The Water Statues
“The bell rings, we get up. The bell rings again, we go to bed. We retire to our rooms; we saw life pass by beneath our windows, observed it in books and on our walks, watched the seasons change. It was always a reflection, a reflection that seemed to freeze on our windowsills... We imagined the world. What else can we imagine now if not our own deaths? The bell rings and it's all over.”
― Sweet Days of Discipline
― Sweet Days of Discipline
“Change wears my sister’s moccasins. He stays up late and wakes up early. He likes to come up quietly and kiss me on the back of the neck when I am at my drawing table. He wants to amuse people, and it hurts him when they yell at him. Change is very musical, but sometimes you must listen for a long time before you hear the pattern in his music.”
― The Book of Qualities
― The Book of Qualities
“and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything”
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
― Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass
“There is beauty to the run-down buildings, the laundry strung high overhead, the rhythm and drawl of daily life here. There is beauty, too, in the old Mediterranean architecture, buildings left over from centuries ago, before Naples became what it is today. There is beauty in the discrepancy -- two things that seems oppositional, coming together.”
― One Italian Summer
― One Italian Summer
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