Aquarium QUOTES

21 " Sleep, she said. Sleep while you can. Forget where you are and forget the mountain of days. Each one enormous, lost in some forest that never ends, but then the edge will fold back and you'll walk on what was the sky and is now only another forest floor, another layer, and you can feel the weight of hundreds of these layers above you. "

― David Vann , Aquarium

23 " Hiçbir hayat başka bir hayatta yaşananları bilemez. "

― David Vann , Aquarium

25 " When I went to sleep each night, I imagined myself at the bottom, thousands of feet down, the weight of all that water but I was gliding just above ground, something like a manta ray, flying soundless and weightless over endless plains that fell away into deep canyons of darker black and then rose up in spires and new plateaus, and I could be anywhere in this world, off Mexico or Guam or under the Arctic or all the way to Africa, all in the one element, all home, shadows on all sides of me gliding also, great wings without sound or sight but felt and known. "

― David Vann , Aquarium

27 " What do we owe for what has come before us, the previous generation?... The problem is that we can never enter this shadow world in order to make payment. "

― David Vann , Aquarium

29 " One night becomes sixty nights. This is the price of hiding. Just hold your breath for one minute and find out what a minute becomes. "

― David Vann , Aquarium

31 " What’s the point of sea horses? I asked.
The old man stood before them, mouth hung open, as if before his god. "

― David Vann , Aquarium

33 " I’ve never believed the rich are unhappy. I think they close their doors on us and then can’t stop laughing. "

― David Vann , Aquarium