

“To paraphrase a prophet: Letters are structures, not events. Yours give me a place to live inside”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I didn’t know you had such a praise kink.”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun

“No one is born evil. As Winnicott put it, “A baby cannot hate the mother, without the mother first hating the baby.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient

“It's nothing like the way they describe it in the movies, like all the stars aligning and fireworks exploding across an ink-black sky. It feels both quieter and bigger than that, as simple as coming home and as dizzying and all-encompassing as the wind rushing in around us. It feels like a thousand banished and buried moments have been building up to this - to us alone and untethered and weak with wanting - and maybe they have.”
― If You Could See the Sun
― If You Could See the Sun

“Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
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