December 2011
43 posts
“I wanted her to live to a hundred, but as you know, what we want and what we get are rarely the same thing.” -Invisible by Paul Auster
“Mexico is the place to live… the beach, tequila, carnitas, taquitos… Oh, and my family.” -Hot MaMa Martha
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. -The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
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“Libraries aren’t in the real world, after all. They’re places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.”
― Paul Auster
“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
