"Great House" Quotes

I realized that the place I was actually living in was a house of fiction.

For a long time I could not remember how to be myself. I was someone else, and even that was not true.

The silence seemed to stretch on without limit, as if it might swallow up the world.

It's hard to part with the things you've always thought were inextricably bound up with who you are.

We long to be alone, and we long for love; we are terrified of what we might do if we are truly seen.

I had the sense of an absence in the middle of things, like a doughnut with a hole in it.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

The act of writing itself leads to a different kind of thinking, a deeper exploration of the self.

The past is hidden somewhere outside the realm of the physical world, and that is where we all go in our dreams.

We all have a certain capacity for evil, and we are all capable of great kindness.