House Of Leaves Quotes

• 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

  Light, Long, Darkness

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• 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

  Wall, Grieving, Wind

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• We all create stories to protect ourselves.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Stories, Protect

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• 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.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Dark, Rooms, Shifting

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• 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

  Life, Latin, Mean

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Space, Water, Hot

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2010

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• Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents.

  James M. Barrie

  Night, House, Parent

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Men, Trying, Void

  Twitter post from Dec 01, 2011

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Love, Light, People

  Twitter post from Aug 26, 2010

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• 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 sum’thing has always been and always will be you.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Morning, Evening, Walks

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Book, Light, Thieves

  Twitter post from Apr 28, 2011

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Echoes, Space, Silence

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2010

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Acceptance, Maturity, Knowing

  Twitter post from May 26, 2011

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• This great blue world of ours is but a house of leaves, moments before the wind.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Blue, Wind, House

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Pain, Survival, Scar

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• You shall be my roots and I will be your shade, though the sun burns my leaves. You shall quench my thirst and I will feed you fruit, though time takes my seed. And when I'm lost and can tell nothing of this earth you will give me hope. And my voice you will always hear. And my hand you will always have. For I will shelter you. And I will comfort you. And even when we are nothing left, not even in death, I will remember you.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Remember You, Remembers You, Hands

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Love Life, Broken, Hearted

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• 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

  Might, Heard, Like Me

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• 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

  Facts, Nightmare, Used

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Sublime, Tequila, Choke

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Losing, Possibility, Without Hope

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Eye, Dark, Littles

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

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Smile, Rome, Her Smile

  Twitter post from Dec 13, 2012

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• I believe the structure of 'House of Leaves' is far more difficult to explain than it is to read. And while I'd like to lay claim to some extraordinary act of originality, truth is I'm only taking advantage of capabilities inherent in everyone.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Believe, House, Originality

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• No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Nightmare, Used

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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