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1 " Don't fall in love or let anyone's life become more important than your own. "
― , Sonora
2 " My loves have always been seared with this singing, this singing written by death, the way some lands have always been crippled by war. "
3 " I inherited this longing. I was addicted to it. And so I was at home with those who wanted and never had enough. I was at home in the places that could never be. The places found only in dreams. "
4 " It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it. "
5 " I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss. "
6 " There is the body of history ever atop of us, and the body of memory rustling within us. Between the two, we are crushed. "
7 " I understood it in my bones. Longing made the music bigger. "
8 " With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again. "
9 " I remember wanting to flee her, and being unable to flee her, so in need of her and half hating her for it, and I still am nauseous from it. "
10 " I have forgiven Sonora. I have forgiven New York, forsaken the recursion of history. But I do not yet know how to forgive myself. "
11 " One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes. "
12 " I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will. "
13 " When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend. "
14 " New York was always so beautiful in the very crux of parting with it. "
15 " My father insisted I eat red meat. 'You'll lose your brain without food,' he said. A meal to him without beef was starvation. "
16 " I saw Sonora before me, so otherworldly, so desolate, some cast-out mistress on the pale blue planet, and longed suddenly to stay. "
17 " For those I come from, there is nothing more devouring than the feeling of want for home, the feeling of need for home. We are all waiting for a form of transport, a ship, a saucer to carry us out of the too-dark night. "
18 " This is it. This is how I always saw heaven, always by the sea, always by night, always in the dark. "
19 " I don't think I'm from this galaxy at all. I believe I came from the Andromeda galaxy, not so far, but far enough. Maybe that's why I'm an outcast.' He drew the spiral of Andromeda close to the Milky Way, almost touching. Then he pointed to Andromeda in the night sky above us.'Maybe that's where I'm from too,' my father said. We could still see the stars. "
20 " There is no moon. The stars have risen and fallen and given way to a new spread, to the smeared heart of our Milky Way. "