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81 " Of course curiosity killed the cat, and even if satisfaction supposedly brought it back, there's still that little problem with the man on the radio telling me more and more about some useless information. "
― Mark Z. Danielewski , House of Leaves
82 " I live at the end of some interminable corridor which the lucky damned can call hell but which the much unluckier atheists - and your mother heads up that bunch- must simply get used to calling home. "
83 " There's only one choice now: finish what Zampanò himself failed to finish. Re-inter this thing in a binding tomb. Make it only a book. "
84 " Immensely clever story, and quite creepy, in a delightfully scary way. "
85 " I miss you. I love you. There’s no second I’ve lived you can’t call your own. "
86 " To repeat: her voice has life. It possesses a quality not present in the original, revealing how a nymph can return a different and more meaningful story, in spite of telling the same story. "
87 " Our newness lies only in parts rearranged. "
― Mark Z. Danielewski , One Rainy Day in May (The Familiar #1)
88 " If one invests some interest in, for example, a tree and begins to form some thoughts about this tree then writes these thoughts down, further examining the meanings that surface, allowing for unconscious associations to take place, writing all this down as well, until the subject of the tree branches off into the subject of the shelf, that person will enjoy immense psychological benefits. "
89 " There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay. "
90 " My hands resemble some ancient tree: the roots that bind up the earth, the rock and the ceaselessly nibbling wordms. "
91 " words need worlds in order to be worlds. worlds though don't need words in order to be worlds. "
92 " I guess I'm hoping the weapons will make me feel better, grant me some kind of fucking control, especially if I sense the dullness inside me get too heavy and thick, warning me that something is again approaching, creeping slowly towards my room, no figment of my imagination either but as tangible as you and I, never ceasing to scratch, waiting, perhaps for a word or an order or some other kind of sign to at last initiate this violent and by now inevitable confrontation - always as full of wrath as I am full of fear. "
93 " How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget?' Asked once, when emptiness was the worst. Why ever [would] he want to remember that? "
― Mark Z. Danielewski , Into the Forest (The Familiar #2)
94 " Both pieces are similar in one way:what one could believe, one doubts. Nicoise because one depends upon the moral sense of the filmmaker, The Navidson Record because one depends upon the moral sense of the world. "
95 " You have to let the water run awhile and even though it remains icy, part of you still refuses to believe it won´t change, especially if you wait a little longer or open up the valve a little more. So you wait but no matter how many minutes run by, you still see no steam, you still feel no heat. "
96 " It's too annoying. Too me. "
― Mark Z. Danielewski , Only Revolutions
97 " Sometimes how you talk is all you got. Even if your talk is wrong. "
98 " I'm so tired. Sleep's been stalking me for too long to remember. Inevitable I suppose. "
99 " The greatest love letters are always encoded for the one and not the many. "
100 " You could not believe what one sigh articulates. What one laugh creates. "
― Mark Z. Danielewski , Honeysuckle & Pain (The Familiar #3)