Quotes That Resonated With Me

run by @ApparentlySharp posts very infrequently

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"Hot August... and talked endlessly of panic. / If I live forever, I shall never forget that summer."

Louis Zukofsky, A-8

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"As he chambers a sixth round, a glimmer of joy flickers across Halloway's features, as if finally something about that place has begun to make sense."

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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"And if you do lose yourself at least take solace in the absolute certainty that you will perish."

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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"But when he looks up at the stars, they start to spin, to froth like the sea…"

-Mithrigil, Fifty-Seven Close Shaves Aboard the Obra Dinn

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"Not until it’s safe to take the books and go. He’s dead if he stays, but he’s ruined if he leaves without them."

Mithrigil, Fifty-Seven Close Shaves Aboard the Obra Dinn

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“One is overtaken with a sense of doom. A tragedy has played out here. And the reckoning is far from over.”

Edwin C. Debb, The Age of the Sacrifice Zone, from Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss

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“How does a book break?”

Ben_oni_, replying to a post from r/houseofleaves, titled “yellow?”

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"I'm finally reading all about love, and you wouldn't believe what I've learned to deify."

Brittany Adames, Locally Real, published in The Brooklyn Rail, Volume 23, Issue 9

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"An ancient memory love had promised and finally never gave."

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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"The thing became only a thing. So I took it home."

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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"He can’t move — something prevents him. After a moment of slowed, rusty cogitation, he realizes that this must be terror."

thatwilderness, Concentrating on Only Breathing

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"But even as the days lose themselves in night and find themselves again come dawn only to drag on to yet more hours of lightless passage, Billy Reston remains vigilant."

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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“At the end of the block, a traffic light turns green for nothing, sending a glistening strip of light onto the empty street.”

brella, nexus

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“Sometimes one voice for all of ‘em is best, y’know? Especially when it’s a good voice- a voice that’ll look out for them. A voice that remembers. And your voice has always been good for that. For a lotta things.”

brella, nexus

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"Too bad dark languages rarely survive. As quickly as they're invented, they die, unable to penetrate much, explore anything, or even connect."

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

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"They kept sailing in circles. The stars were wrong. He kept saying that, the stars were wrong."

Mithrigil, Fifty-Seven Close Shaves Aboard the Obra Dinn

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"Flying through the air, no longer ruled by that happy dyad of gravity & mass until I was landing on the roof of a parked car."

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves