I'm in love, truly, madly, deeply in love with perception.
When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.
Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.
Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.
The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.
One develops an instinct for letting silence do the heavy lifting. In the three, four, five seconds that passed without either of us speaking, the many ways the conversation could go came and went like time-lapse film of flowers blooming and dying.