"In a Strange Room" Quotes
Three interconnected journeys explore the themes of longing, belonging, and self-discovery in this introspective novel.
fiction | 180 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The things we fear have already happened to us.
All journeys were return journeys. The farther one traveled, the nakeder one got, until, towards the end, ceasing to be animated by any scene, one was most oneself, a man in a bed surrounded by empty bottles. The man who says, 'I've got no illusions' has at least that one.
The world is too big, and we are too small, and so we strive for bigness, and all the time it eludes us.
The past had vanished, the future had vanished. What remained was a present without edges or dimensions.
He had been a different person then, and he had been unable to change. The tragedy was that he was a different person now, and he could not change back.
The two of them were left behind, in a vast silence of their own making.
He had learned that the relief of love was nothing like the relief of traveling. The relief of love was like the relief of not traveling.
There are times when it seems to him that the world is a sheet of glass, and that if he could only walk quietly up to it and press his face against it, it would shatter into a million pieces, and he would be free.
What do you do when the moment comes? When the darkness comes and you can't see the way ahead? You must learn to trust in the darkness.
Everything was always just about to happen. The moments that had come and gone were just a prelude to other moments, and everything was in motion.
