“Was this what I wanted, the rest of my days being laid out for me? A life not of my choosing. Would I be able to live it out here, in this isolation, six months on an island, the days unfolding one into another, a series of Russian dolls, diminishing in their intensity and diminishing me as well. Would I be diminished? Or was this what I needed, to live here undisturbed for the rest of my life and never have to interact with the fractiousness of city living ever again?” LivingAloneIsolationCity Book:More Things in Heaven and Earth Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth
“I had come to this city because I wanted to disappear into its amorphous multitudes of people who didn’t know me. I wanted to be seen only when I chose to be seen. Cities allowed you that, they took you in like quicksand and spat you out if they found you indigestible.” CityAnonymousCity Life Quote Book:More Things in Heaven and Earth Source: More Things in Heaven and Earth