Tagged: Dave Eggers.
April 7th, 2012
My mind, I know, I can prove, hovers on hummingbird wings. It hovers and it churns. And when it’s operating at full thrust, the churning does not stop. The machines do not rest, the systems rarely cool. And while I can forget anything of any importance - this is why people tell me secrets - my mind has an uncanny knack for organization when it comes to pain. Nothing tormenting is ever lost, never even diminished in colour or intensity or quality of sound.
You Shall Know Our Velocity by Dave Eggers

∞01:50 am, by lostinthesounds ∩14
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April 2nd, 2012
Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn’t slept at all.
What is What by Dave Eggers

∞04:37 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩32
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December 29th, 2011
She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.
How Water Feels to the Fishes by Dave Eggers

∞03:44 am, by lostinthesounds
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December 24th, 2011
We feel that to reveal embarrassing or private things, we have given someone something, that, like a primitive person fearing that a photographer will steal his soul, we identify our secrets, our past and their blotches, with our identity, that revealing our habits or losses or deeds somehow makes one less of oneself.
Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

∞11:06 am, by lostinthesounds ∩29
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November 24th, 2011
Still though, I think if you’re not self-obsessed, you’re probably boring.
A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

∞06:11 am, by lostinthesounds ∩17
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October 20th, 2011
I wanted so many times while driving to flip, to skid and flip and fall from the car and have something happen. I wanted to land on my head and lose half of it, or land on my legs and lose one or both. I wanted something to happen so my choices would be fewer, so my map would have a route straight through, in red. I wanted limitations, boundaries, to ease the burden; because the agony, Jack, when we were up there in the dark, was in the silence! All I ever wanted was to know what to do. In these last months I’ve had no clue, I’ve been paralysed by the quiet, and for a moment something spoke to me, and we came here, or came to Africa, and intermittently there were answers, intermittently there was a chorus and they sang to us and pointing, and were watching and approving, but just as often there was silence, and we stood blinking under the sun, or under the black sky, and we had to think of what to do next.
You Shall Know Our Velocity! by Dave Eggers

∞11:08 am, by lostinthesounds ∩15
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October 13th, 2011
But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.
What is What by Dave Eggers

∞02:47 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩27
[What Is What] [Dave Eggers] [Quote] [Book Quote]
July 30th, 2011
Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets again, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.
How the Water Feels to the Fishes by Dave Eggers

∞10:31 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩18
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July 8th, 2011
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
What is the What by Dave Eggers

∞12:29 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩40
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