Quotes & Words

[booksqouted]

People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.

Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted (via booksqouted)

[lovecraftlou]

Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

Blaise Pascal

[lovecraftlou]

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît point

Blaise Pascal

[lovecraftlou]

How can you ever understand the awful weight of living, so ridiculously riddled with so many lies of tranquility and bliss, at best half-covering but never actually easing the crushing weight of it all, merely guaranteeing a lifetime of the same, year after year after year after year after year after year, and all for what?

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

I'm sorry you saw what you saw in me. I'm sorry I made you run. I must understand. I must accept. I must let go. But it's hard. You're all I have.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

We hold our dreams in lost dreams and tear our hearts out over chance

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

Love curled up and died on such a floor. He blinks. Clarity improves. He hears other creatures scream and fade. But silence is his. He knows. In time the gates will open. In time his heart will open. Then the shadows will bleed and the locks will break.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote something, I napped and I dreamt something too, with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of something has always been and always will be you.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

My guts began churning with pain. Probably with blood. I started hemorrhaging hurt. Something I knew no band-aid or antacid was going to cure. I doubted even sutures would help. But what could I do? There would be no healing here.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

I'm about as close to fucking gone as you can get.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day- without relief or explanation.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

Horror should have buried me. It didn't I sat down and waited for her to find me. She never did.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

She could have laid this world to waste. Maybe she still will.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

Nothing close to pity moved inside me. I was sliding over some edge within myself.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

Though I can see, I walk in total darkness. And though I feel, I care even less than I see.

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

[lovecraftlou]

And then the worst question of all: if I'd been there, could I have made a difference?

Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves