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When life just doesn't make sense.

“Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, “The world is quiet here,” as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.”

— The Slippery Slope

You discovered that your house is haunted, but instead of fleeing you decided to profit. Bleeding walls? Collect for bloodbank. Rodents of Unusual Size? Butchered and sold. Ectoplasm? Glowstick factory. You call a family meeting to discuss brainstorm ideas for the other manifestations.

“When you are with me, I do not say: here and now we are together. Rather, I say: You and I and eternity, we swim in nowhere.”

— Mahmoud Darwish, from When You Are With Me; Almond Blossoms and Beyond (tr. by Mohammad Shaheen)

I hope my hopes won’t mislead me.

Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1944-1947

Finished my book last night so I guess I’ll just stare longingly at my bookshelf until god reveals my next book to read to me through divine revelation