“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it's my head I'm locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”
― Alex Garland, quote from The Coma
“The dilapidation was not a memory but a representation of a poorly remembered past.”
― Alex Garland, quote from The Coma
“I remembered a few things about waking. I remembered the sense of surprise as dream life and waking life swapped primacy, and the way in which the most tangible and deeply involving dreams could bleach entirely away.”
― Alex Garland, quote from The Coma
“So: I knew dream life. In fact, in a way, I was actually comfortable with it. Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that dream life seemed fractured and lacking consequence, lacking any certainty that one thing led to another. But from within dream life, the world was generally coherent. Not exactly an unconfusing world---just no more confusing than any other.”
― Alex Garland, quote from The Coma
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“Îi dispreţuiesc pe oamenii care sunt întruna gata să fotografieze şi toată ziua umblă cu aparatul atârnat de gât.Necotenit sunt în căutarea unui subiect şi fotografiează absolut orice,chiar şi lucrul cel mai absurd.N-au altceva în minte decât să se arate întruna pe ei înşişi şi întodeauna în maniera cea mai dezagreabilă,de care,de altfel,nici nu sunt conştienţi.Fixează în fotografiile lor o lume pervers deformată,care n-are nimic altceva în comun cu lumea reală decât această deformare perversă de care s-au făcut vinovaţi.Fotografiatul e o manie infamă de care este cuprinsă încetul cu încetul întreaga omenire,pentru că e nu numai îndrăgostire de deformare şi perversitate,ci şi înnebunită de ea şi,într-adevăr,prin fotografiere,cu timpul ia lumea deformată şi perversă drept singura autentică.Cei care fotografiează comit una din cele mai infame crime din câte din câte pot fi comise,deoarece,în fotografiile lor,oamenii apar ca nişte marionete ridicole,schimonosite până la nerecunoaştere,chiar desfigurate,care se holbează înspăimântate la obiectivul infam,într-un mod idiot,respingător.A fotografia e o pasiune abjectă,de care sunt cuprinse toate continentele şi toate straturile populaţiei,e o boală care a lovit întreaga omenire şi de care nu va mai putea fi vindecată niciodată.”
― Thomas Bernhard, quote from Extinction
“I shall always remember how the peacocks’ tails shimmered when the moon rose amongst the tall trees, and on the shady bank the emerging mermaids gleamed fresh and silvery amongst the rocks…”
― Hermann Hesse, quote from The Journey to the East
“There are few problems a Gallagher Girl can face that cannot be improved by a job. A task. A target.”
― Ally Carter, quote from Double Crossed: A Spies and Thieves Story
“If you want to change something, change it. Don't just sit around sighing all day like a balloon losing air.”
― quote from Letting Ana Go
“I was the one who was supposed to protect him, but I'd never felt as protected as I did in that moment, encircled by his strong arms”
― Sara B. Larson, quote from Defy
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