Frasi di Mark Danielewski

„Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Little solace comes
to those who grieve
when thoughts keep drifting
as walls keep shifting
and this great blue world of ours
seems a house of leaves

moments before the wind.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„We all create stories to protect ourselves.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„This is not for you.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„I still get nightmares. In fact, I get them so often I should be used to them by now. I'm not. No one ever really gets used to nightmares.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski

„Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
And it might be heard.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„What miracle is this? This giant tree.
It stands ten thousand feet high
But doesn't reach the ground. Still it stands.
Its roots must hold the sky.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„… and there you have it, another body on the floor surrounded by things that don't mean much to anyone except to the one who can't take any of them along.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Some people reflect light, some deflect it, you by some miracle, seem to collect it.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski

„Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves

„And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.“

—  Mark Z. Danielewski, libro House of Leaves