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# Mark Z. Danielewski

(1965)   Writer   United States

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Mark Z. Danielewski is a writer from the United States, best known for *House of Leaves*.

## Quick Facts About Mark Z. Danielewski

Born March 5, 1965

Nationality United States

Profession Writer

Notable works House of Leaves

## About Mark Z. Danielewski

House of Leaves won the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award, and his second novel Only Revolutions was nominated for the National Book Award.

##  Quotes by Mark Z. Danielewski · Page 4

> [Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/here-then-the-after-math-of-meaning-a-liftime-finished-between-the/)

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> [ Very soon he will vanish completely in the wings of his own wordless stanza. \[ \] but his stanza is not completely empty \[ \* \] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/very-soon-he-will-vanish-completely-in-the-wings-of-his-own-wordless-2/)

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> [“It is understood that the world does not want to be understood. The world would not be this world if it did.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/it-is-understood-that-the-world-does-not-want-to-be-understood-the/)

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> [My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/my-interest-is-in-how-meaning-is-communicated-via-language-and-i/)

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[Believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/)

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> [Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/here-then-at-long-last-is-my-darkness-no-cry-of-light-no-glimmer-not/)

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> [...and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/and-there-you-have-it-another-body-on-the-floor-surrounded-by-things/)

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> [Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all. 'Does that scare you?' Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father. 'It's like something's waiting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/sometimes-it-s-just-silent-no-sound-at-all-does-that-scare-you-chad/)

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[Chad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/chad/)

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> [I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/i-still-get-nightmares-in-fact-i-get-them-so-often-i-should-be-used/)

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[Facts](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/facts/)

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> [“You wouldn't believe how much harder it's getting for me to just leave my studio. It's really sad. In fact these days…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/you-wouldn-t-believe-how-much-harder-it-s-getting-for-me-to-just/)

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[Anger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anger/)

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> [“Darkness is impossible to remember. Consequently cavers desire to return to those unseen depths where they have just been. It is an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/darkness-is-impossible-to-remember-consequently-cavers-desire-to/)

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[Darkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness/)

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> [Literature is capable of being a subject that people want to catch up on or discuss, whether at a coffee shop or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/literature-is-capable-of-being-a-subject-that-people-want-to-catch-up/)

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> [“Symbols shmimbols. Sure they're important but... Well look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/symbols-shmimbols-sure-they-re-important-but-well-look-at-ahab-s/)

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> [“You have to let the water run awhile and even though it remains icy, part of you still refuses to believe it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/you-have-to-let-the-water-run-awhile-and-even-though-it-remains-icy/)

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> [“Which in the gray of gentler eyes will prove far more than any of us could ever need; 'enough' we will shout,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/which-in-the-gray-of-gentler-eyes-will-prove-far-more-than-any-of-us/)

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[Fullness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fullness/)

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> [Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/passion-has-little-to-do-with-euphoria-and-everything-to-do-with/)

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> [“Both pieces are similar in one way:what one could believe, one doubts. Nicoise because one depends upon the moral sense of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/both-pieces-are-similar-in-one-way-what-one-could-believe-one-doubts/)

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> [“Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/then-no-matter-where-you-are-in-a-crowded-restaurant-or-on-some/)

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> [You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/you-shall-be-my-roots-and-i-will-be-your-shade-though-the-sun-burns/)

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> [“What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/what-can-i-say-i-m-a-sucker-for-abandoned-stuff-misplaced-stuff/)

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> [“Even up until these final eons of time, we felt we could create anything. We could build ourselves a heaven. But why?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/even-up-until-these-final-eons-of-time-we-felt-we-could-create/)

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[Poetry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/)

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> [“By now you've probably noticed that except when safely contained by quotes, Zampanò always steers clear of such questionable four-letter language. This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/by-now-you-ve-probably-noticed-that-except-when-safely-contained-by/)

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[Cursing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cursing/)

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> [ “This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish \[the book\] and that will be that, until a moment will… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/this-much-i-m-certain-of-it-doesn-t-happen-immediately-you-ll-finish/)

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[Darkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness/)

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> [To read" actually comes from the Latin reri "to calculate, to think" which is not only the progenitor of "read" but of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/to-read-actually-comes-from-the-latin-reri-to-calculate-to-think/)

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[Arms](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/arms/)

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> [“Her. Her. Her. Future breezes implore me to stay. But I'm no future. I'm no past. Only ever contemporary of this path.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/her-her-her-future-breezes-implore-me-to-stay-but-i-m-no-future-i-m/)

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[Bald eagle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bald-eagle/)

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> [“Words will heal your heart. If you ever come to disregard everything I've told you, believe at least this much: your words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/words-will-heal-your-heart-if-you-ever-come-to-disregard-everything-i/)

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[Words](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/words/)

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> [“Here then - the after math of meaning. A lifetime finished between the space of two frames.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/here-then-the-after-math-of-meaning-a-lifetime-finished-between-the/)

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[Frames](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/frames/)

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> [“What can I say? I'm taken; I love how enthralled she remains by the festival of living.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/what-can-i-say-i-m-taken-i-love-how-enthralled-she-remains-by-the/)

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[Admiration](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/admiration/)

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> [Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/even-the-brightest-magnesium-flare-can-do-little-against-such-dark/)

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[Blind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blind/)

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> [“Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember: we are only God’s echoes and God is Narcissus.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/look-to-the-sky-look-to-yourself-and-remember-we-are-only-god-s/)

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[Look Sky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/look-sky/)

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> [Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/anger-is-one-way-to-respond-to-fear-i-say-one-way-because-responses/)

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> [“Your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/your-eye-will-no-longer-linger-on-the-light-it-will-no-longer-trace/)

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[Darkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness/)

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> [So often I wonder whether it is my right to capitalize, as I feel, so often, on the grief of others. But…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/so-often-i-wonder-whether-it-is-my-right-to-capitalize-as-i-feel-so/)

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> [“The paramedics said there was nothing unusual, just the way it goes, eighty some years and the inevitable kerplunk, the system goes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/the-paramedics-said-there-was-nothing-unusual-just-the-way-it-goes/)

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[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

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> [Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/heart-may-still-be-the-fire-in-hearth-but-i-m-suddenly-too-cold-to/)

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[Buttons](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/buttons/)

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> [“We never even kissed or looked into each other's eyes. Our lips just trespassed on those inner labyrinths hidden deep within our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/we-never-even-kissed-or-looked-into-each-other-s-eyes-our-lips-just/)

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[Desire](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desire/)

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> [“In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/in-the-end-navidson-is-left-with-one-page-and-one-match-for-a-long/)

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[Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/)

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> [“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/devouring-their-dark-lips-dark-with-wine-and-fleeting-love-an-ancient/)

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[Darkness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/darkness/)

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> [“I went outside. Tried taking in the billions of stars above, lingering long enough to allow each point of light the chance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/i-went-outside-tried-taking-in-the-billions-of-stars-above-lingering/)

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[Astronomy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/astronomy/)

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> [“There once was a poor man who walked around without shoes. His feet were covered in calluses. One day a rich man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/there-once-was-a-poor-man-who-walked-around-without-shoes-his-feet/)

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[Fashion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fashion/)

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> [“I've wandered as far west as I can go. Sitting now on the sand, I watch the sun blur into an aftermath.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-z-danielewski/i-ve-wandered-as-far-west-as-i-can-go-sitting-now-on-the-sand-i-watch/)

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[Afternoon sun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/afternoon-sun/)

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## Mark Z. Danielewski by topic

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                        "text": "“Both pieces are similar in one way:what one could believe, one doubts. Nicoise because one depends upon the moral sense of the filmmaker, The Navidson Record because one depends upon the moral sense of the world.”",
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                        "text": "“Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got not to face the thing you most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature you truly are, the creature we all are, buried in the nameless black of a name. And then the nightmares will begin.”",
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                        "text": "You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.",
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                        "text": "“What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unmourned, well, you get the drift. As a counselor once told me -a counselor for Disaffected Yought, I might add: \"You like that crap because it reminds you of you.\" Couldn't of said it better or put it more bluntly. Don't even disagree with it either.”",
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                        "text": "“Even up until these final eons of time, we felt we could create anything. We could build ourselves a heaven. But why? We were Heaven already. Only in the very end did we try to build a S.O.U.L. That which would outlast V.E.M., outlast The Verse, outlast death. But it was impossible. Or we were too late. Though still the H.O.L.Y. tried. And built Hell instead.”",
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                        "text": "“By now you've probably noticed that except when safely contained by quotes, Zampanò always steers clear of such questionable four-letter language. This instance in particular proves that beneath all that cool psuedo-academic hogwash lurked a very passionate man who knew how important it was to say \"fuck\" now and then, and say it loud too, relish its syllabic sweetness, its immigrant pride, a great American epic word really, starting at the lower lip, often the very front of the lower lip, before racing all the way to the back of the throat, where it finishes with a great blast, the concussive force of the K catching up then with the hush of the F already on its way, thus loading it with plenty of offense and edge and certainly ambiguity. FUCK. A great by-the-bootstrap prayer or curse if you prefer, depending on how you look at it, or use it, suited perfectly for hurling at the skies or at the world, or sometimes, if said just right, for uttering with enough love and fire, the woman beside you melts inside herself, immersed in all that word-heat.”",
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                        "text": "“This much I'm certain of: it doesn't happen immediately. You'll finish [the book] and that will be that, until a moment will come, maybe in a month, maybe a year, maybe even several years. You'll be sick or feeling troubled or deeply in love or quietly uncertain or even content for the first time in your life. It won't matter. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all. For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. You'll detect slow and subtle shifts going on all around you, more importantly shifts in you. Worse, you'll realize it's always been shifting, like a shimmer of sorts, a vast shimmer, only dark like a room. But you won't understand why or how. You'll have forgotten what granted you this awareness in the first place ... You might try then, as I did, to find a sky so full of stars it will blind you again. Only no sky can blind you now. Even with all that iridescent magic up there, your eye will no longer linger on the light, it will no longer trace constellations. You'll care only about the darkness and you'll watch it for hours, for days, maybe even for years, trying in vain to believe you're some kind of indispensable, universe-appointed sentinel, as if just by looking you could actually keep it all at bay. It will get so bad you'll be afraid to look away, you'll be afraid to sleep. Then no matter where you are, in a crowded restaurant or on some desolate street or even in the comforts of your own home, you'll watch yourself dismantle every assurance you ever lived by. You'll stand aside as a great complexity intrudes, tearing apart, piece by piece, all of your carefully conceived denials, whether deliberate or unconscious. And then for better or worse you'll turn, unable to resist, though try to resist you still will, fighting with everything you've got not to face the thing you most dread, what is now, what will be, what has always come before, the creature you truly are, the creature we all are, buried in the nameless black of a name. And then the nightmares will begin.”",
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                        "text": "To read\" actually comes from the Latin reri \"to calculate, to think\" which is not only the progenitor of \"read\" but of \"reason\" as well, both of which hail from the Greek arariskein \"to fit.\" Aside from giving us \"reason,\" arariskein also gives us an unlikely sibling, Latin arma meaning \"weapons.\" It seems that \"to fit\" the world or to make sense of it requires either reason or arms.",
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                        "text": "“Her. Her. Her. Future breezes implore me to stay. But I'm no future. I'm no past. Only ever contemporary of this path. I'll sacrifice everything for all her seasons give from losing. She, I sigh from The Mountain top. By her now. My only role. And for that freedom, spread my polar chill, reaching even the warmest times, a warning upon the back of every life that would by harming Hailey's play, ever wayward around this vegetative rush of orbit & twine, awaken among these cascading cliffs of bellicose ice me. And my Vengeance. At once. The Justice of my awful loss set free upon this crowded land. An old terror violent for the glee of ends. But to those who would tend her, harrowed by such Beauty & Fleeting Presence to do more, my cool cries will kiss their gentle foreheads and my tears will kiss their tender cheeks, and then if the Love of their Kindness, which only Kindness ever finds, spills my ear, for a while I might slip down and play amidst her canopies of gold. Solitude. Hailey's bare feet. And all her patience now assumes. Garland of Spring's Sacred Bloom. By you, ever sixteen, this World's preserved. By you, this World has everything left to lose. And I, your sentry of ice, shall allways protect what your Joy so dangerously resumes. I'll destroy no World so long it keeps turning with flurry & gush, petals & stems bending and lush, and allways our hushes returning anew. Everyone betrays the Dream but who cares for it? O Hailey no, I could never walk away from you. - Haloes! Haleskarth! Contraband! I can walk away from anything. Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it. Bald Eagles soar over me: —Reveille Rebel! I jump free this weel. On fire. Blaze a breeze. I'll devastate the World. \\\\ Samsara! Samarra! Grand! I can walk away from anything. Everyone loves the Dream but I kill it. Atlas Mountain Cedars gush over me: —Up Boogaloo! I leap free this spring. On fire. How my hair curls. I'll destroy the World. - Him. Him. Him. Future winds imploring me to stay. But I'm no tomorrow. I'm no yesterday. Only ever contemporary of this way. I will sacrifice everything for all his seasons miss of soaring. He, I sigh from The Mountain top. By him now. My only role. And for that freedom, spread my polar chill, reaching even the warmest climes, a warning upon the back of every life that would by harming Sam's play, ever wayward around this animal streak of orbit & wind, awaken among these cataracts of belligerent ice me. And my Justice. At once. The Vengeance of my awful loss set free upon this crowded land. An old terror violent for the delirium of ends. But to those who would protect him, frightened by such Beauty & Savage Presence to do more, my cool cries will kiss their tender foreheads and my tears will kiss their gentle cheeks, and then if the Kindness of their Love, which only Loving ever binds, spills my ear, for a while I might slip down and play among his foals so green. My barrenness. Sam's solitude. And all his patience now presumes. Luster of Spring's Sacred Brood. By you, ever sixteen, this World's reserved. By you, this World has everything left to lose. And I, your sentry of ice, shall allways protect what your Joy so terrifyingly elects. I'll destroy no World so long it keeps turning with scurry & blush, fledgling & charms beading with dews, and allways our rush returning renewed. Everyone betrays the Dream but who cares for it? O Sam no, I could never walk away from you.”",
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                        "text": "“Words will heal your heart. If you ever come to disregard everything I've told you, believe at least this much: your words and only your words will heal your heart.”",
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                        "text": "“Here then - the after math of meaning. A lifetime finished between the space of two frames.”",
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                        "text": "Heart may still be the fire in hearth but I'm suddenly too cold to continue, and besides, there's no hearth here anyway and it's the end of June. Thursday. Almost noon. And all the buttons on my corduroy coat are gone. I don't know why. I'm sorry Hailey. I don't know what to do.",
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                        "text": "“We never even kissed or looked into each other's eyes. Our lips just trespassed on those inner labyrinths hidden deep within our ears, filled them with the private music of wicked words, hers in many languages, mine in the off color of my only tongue, until as our tones shifted, and our consonants spun and squealed, rattled faster, hesitated, raced harder, syllables soon melting with groans, or moans finding purchase in new words, or old words, or made-up words, until we gathered up our heat and refused to release it, enjoying too much the dark language we had suddenly stumbled upon, craved to, carved to, not a communication really but a channeling of our rumored desires, hers for all I know gone to Black Forests and wolves, mine banging back to a familiar form, that great revenant mystery I still could only hear the shape of, which in spite of our separate lusts and individual cries still continued to drive us deeper into stranger tones, our mutual desire to keep gripping the burn fueled by sound.”",
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                        "text": "“In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match by the neck and after locating the friction strip sparks to life a final ball of light. First, he reads a few lines by match light and then as the heat bites his fingertips he applies the flame to the page. Here then is one end: a final act of reading, a final act of consumption. And as the fire rapidly devours the paper, Navidson's eyes frantically sweep down over the text, keeping just ahead of the necessary immolation, until as he reaches the last few words, flames lick around his hands, ash peels off into the surrounding emptiness, and then as the fire retreats, dimming, its light suddenly spent, the book is gone leaving nothing behind but invisible traces already dismantled in the dark.”",
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                        "text": "“devouring their dark lips, dark with wine and fleeting love, an ancient memory love had promised but finally never gave, until there were too many kisses to count or remember, and the memory of love proved not love at all and needed a replacement, which our bodies found, and then the giggles subsided, and the laughter dimmed, and darkness enfolded all of us and we gave away our childhood for nothing and we died”",
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                        "text": "“I went outside. Tried taking in the billions of stars above, lingering long enough to allow each point of light the chance to scratch a deep hole in the back of my retina, so that when I finally did turn to face the dark surrounding forest I thought I saw the billion eyes of a billion cats blinking out, in the math of the living, the sum of the universe, the stories of history , a life older than anyone could have ever imagined. And even after they were gone--fading away together, as if they really were one--something still lingered in those sweet folds of black pine , sitting quietly, almost as if it too were waiting for something to wake.”",
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                        "text": "“I've wandered as far west as I can go. Sitting now on the sand, I watch the sun blur into an aftermath. Reds finally marrying blues. Soon night will enfold us all. But the light is still not gone, not yet, and by it I can dimly see here my own dark hallway, or maybe it was just a foyer and maybe not dark at all, not in fact brightly lit, an afternoon sun blazing through the lead panes, now detected amidst what amounts to a long column of my yesterdays, towards the end, though not the very end of course, where I had stood at the age of seven, gripping my mother's wrists, trying as hard as I could to keep her from going.”",
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