“Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Heartbroken, Life, Death
“I took my morning walk, I took my evening walk, I ate something, I thought about something, I wrote, I napped and dreamt something too, and with all that something, I still have nothing because so much of something has always been and always will be you. I miss you.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Missing You, Naps, Dreams, eating
“Look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Symbols, Writing, Metaphors
“Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone? If we can't embrace uncertainty do we miss the point of love?”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Future, Past, Missing
“These days the only thing that gets me outside is when I say: Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck you. Fuck me. Fuck this. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Depression, Fuck, upset
“Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Hope, possibilities, Survival
“It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Decisions, Mistakes, Fuck It
“Come morning I found the day as I have found every other day -- without relief or explanation.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Relief, explanation, Days
“I miss you. I love you. There’s no second I’ve lived you can’t call your own.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Missing You, Love, Relationships
“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Lies, pretending, Stories
“There once was a poor man who walked around without shoes. His feet were covered in calluses. One day a rich man felt sorry for the poor man and bought him a pair of Nikes. The poor man was extremely grateful and wore the shoes constantly. Well after a year or so, the shoes fell apart. So the poor m…”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: poor, rich, charity
“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Writers, Books, Writing
“Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: beauty, looks, Beautiful
“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 counselo…”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Hoarder, Material Items, Shadows
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not…”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Time, Sleeping, Murder
“I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Wants, desires, Needs
“Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Time, Here, Then
“Life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Life, Problems, Fixing
“Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Lime, Alcohol, Funny
“Whoever said feeling right meant doing right, knew nothing about living right.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Feeling, Living, actions
“I'm so tired. Sleep's been stalking me for too long to remember.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Sleep, Tired, stalker
“The greatest love letters are always encoded for the one and not the many.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Love Letters, Personalization
“Do not entrust your future to the limits of your stride.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Future, Limitations, Dreams
“FUCK. A great by-the-bootstrap prayer or curse of you prefer, depending on how you look at it, or use it, suited perfectly for hurling at the skies or at the world.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Curse Words, Prayers, Fuck
“There is no such thing as the last straw. There is only hay.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Last Straw, Hay, Effort
“Love inhabits more than just the heart and mind.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Hearts, minds
“Get thee to a dictionary and be relentless about your visits there.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Dictionary, Words, Writing
“Look to the sky, look to yourself and remember: we are only God’s echoes and God is Narcissus.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: God, Echoes, Narcissus
“Is it possible to love something so much, you imagine it wants to destroy you only because it has denied you?”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.comTagged: Love, Destruction, Rejection