“Paul, Paul, this is the claim you never made, the fervor you never showed. You were so cool and light, so elusive, and I never felt you encircling me and claiming possession. Rango is saying all the words I wanted to hear you say. You never came close to me, even while taking me. You took me as men take foreign women in distant countries whose language they cannot speak. You took me in silence and strangeness.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“Henry did not want to be fixed, was somehow convinced that the fix would be a lie, something that would lessen him.”
Source: Dreamcatcher
“What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“Humans have the ability to rewrite history. Within a few decades it is not even questioned. Stories of the past become as real as the world you walk through today. Wars are waged over false history. Sins are denied. All for mankind to move forward and feel comfortable about its past. Your true history is written in the stars. Look up, breathe in, and be humbled by the ones who came before you. The ones who have suffered, who have endured, who have overcome. Their blood is alive in you. Their spirits roam freely in the heavens above.”
Source: When The Cedars Shade Your Grave
“What's the book like?"
"Well, some of it's twaddle, but mostly it's just piffle. Cheers!”
Source: Ghostwritten
“These rituals Rango could not sustain, for he could not maintain the effort to arrive on time since his lifelong habit had created the opposite habit: to elude, to avoid, to disappoint every expectation of others, every commitment, every promise, every crystallization.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“He failed to see that it contained at once all of Djuna's wishes which had been denied, and these wishes had flown from all directions to meet at this intersection and to plead once more for understanding.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“Of course, you'll defend Jay," says Rango, He was a part of your former life, of your former values. I will never be able to alter that. I want you to think as I do."
"But Rango, you couldn't respect someone who surrendered an opinion merely to please you . It would be hypocrisy.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals.”
Source: The Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel
“mas é bonito, sim, ver as coisas de alguém espalhadas pela casa. dá amor pela pessoa e pela casa. é uma partitura de como a vida se desenrola naquele lugar.”
Source: Uma delicada coleção de ausências