“Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outward from our movements.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
“Accents don't show up in music.”
― Pinball
― Pinball
“I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that contemplating their absence feels as strange as imagining having never been born yourself.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
“His voice sounded more sincere in these surroundings, less distorted by pride and pain.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
“This was all our world was made of: decomposed visions. Not atoms --- bits of dreams.”
― Mission to America
― Mission to America
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