Alex > Alex's Quotes

“Tout est encore trop intense, je voulais du calme et j’ai tout raté, mais je vais recommencer, je me le promets, en sortant d’ici je recommencerai et je réussirai, je serai vite et mince et morte, il n’y aura que le silence.”
― Olivia Tapiero, Les murs

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it?
Ford: We're safe.
Arthur: Oh good.
Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet.
Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings”
― Percival Everett, The Trees

“I’ve felt infinity too, late in my twenties, when I discovered a word in English I’d only ever known in Bengali. Or when I spot, with hours still left in the day, the moon’s hazy thumbprint. How the moon enjoys debunking the day.”
― Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood: Essays