40 Quotes by Jonathan Lee
"At a certain age we forget to be afraid of people. We start to dread, instead, their absence."
"He loved New York. He hated it. It was a cathedral of possibilities, it would never settle down."
"The difference, in the end, between life and death is perhaps nothing more than movement?"
"He [Andrew Haswell Green] wanted to say, Don't go, but he still did not know how. To open himself up to a hard, hurtful truth again seemed the very worst of options. Some people are perhaps meant to live alone."
"We find, over time, the deepness of a thing. And if we fail to find it, then we invent it, to show ourselves we are not shallow."
"The real cruelty of dying was not the way your own obscene dreams went gray. It was the fact that you lost the chance to tell your story."
"A revelation is like a sneeze. Sounds unlikely, but it is. It can be lost, can simply vanish, if one does not look straight into the light and ask the inside to come out."
"How do we picture the past? Does it become clearer as it drifts into the distance? Can it be seen from more angles, a better vantage, with finer instruments for optics, and more supporting documentation to draw from? Or has its essence already vanished, leaving space for lies to multiply and thrive, spreading across paperwork that is good for nothing except, perhaps, a nervous acting captain's next snack?"