Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Mark Z. Danielewski - Page 2

Here then - the after math of meaning. A liftime finished between the space of two frames.

You got a death wish, Truant?' Which was the thing that scared me. 'Cause maybe I did.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

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.

Maybe you saw her first? Caught a glimpse between the lines, between the letters, like a ghost in the mirror, a ghost in the wings?

I must read. I must read. I must read.

Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as "the big bang" - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago. *Typo: "destiny" should read "density.

Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that youve got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.

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.

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.

...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.

The greatest of love letters are always coded for the one and not the many.

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

I could see her get all nervous but she was also excited. Nightmares have that quality, don't they?

Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)

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.

I'm all soils west when the Earth lets go. I'm a thousand Julys.

It is hungry, it it immortal. Worse, it knows nothing of whim.

...life's big. If you can't fix it, give it a spin.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

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

Tom gets by, Navidson succeeds. Tom just wants to be, Navidson must become. And yet despite such obvious differences, anyone who looks past Tom's wide grin and considers his eyes will find surprisingly deep pools of sorrow. Which is how we know they are brothers, because like Tom, Navidson's eyes share the same water.

I will walk heavy, and I will walk strange.