Greg Orme
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“This isn't a script," Julian says. "It's not going to add up. Not everything's going to come together in the third act.”
― Imperial Bedrooms
― Imperial Bedrooms
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it's hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.”
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
― A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”
― Invisible Monsters
― Invisible Monsters
“Never in his life had occasion to ask himself, "Why are things the way they are?" Why should he bother, when the way they were was always perfect? Why are things the way they are? The question to which there is no answer, and up till then he was so blessed he didn't even know the question existed.”
― American Pastoral
― American Pastoral
“There's a notion I'd like to see buried: the ordinary person. Ridiculous. There is no ordinary person.”
― Watchmen
― Watchmen
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