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1. Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. - Immortality has given Jian a purer appreciation of the passage of time.

2. 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. - Remy understands how to wait. Sometimes he feels like he doesn't understand anything else, but waiting, he's got down.

3. It may be the wrong decision, but fuck it, it's mine. - Krmi sheathed his sword and let his hair fall into the trash can. Heroism could be someone else's problem.

4. Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book. - Krmi's book collection was getting a little out of hand, and that was before he started buying estate lots.

5. Out of the blue, beyond any cause you can trace, you'll suddenly realize things are not how you perceived them to be at all. For some reason, you will no longer be the person you believed you once were. - He'd been looking for his purpose, for his true self, across two continents. He was having a hard time now that he might have actually found it.

6. ...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. - Parents died; it was one of the truths he'd learned living at the school. He'd lost his mother young, even so he'd known he wasn't safe from this thing, the death of parents. It seemed different, though, since it was his father.

7. Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead. - Cillian was building a new life on the ashes of others' dreams, but his grandmother had always said ash was good insulation.

8. What can I say, I'm a sucker for abandoned stuff, misplaced stuff, forgotten stuff, any old stuff which despite the light of progress and all that, still vanishes every day like shadows at noon, goings unheralded, passings unmourned, well, you get the drift. - Daiyu carries on her grandfather's tradition of bringing home lost magical objects.

9. 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 something has always been and always will be you. - The difference between obsession and love is reciprocation.

10. Beneath all that cool psuedo-academic hogwash lurked a very passionate man who knew how important it was to say "fuck" now and then. - Jin slammed the book shut and shoved away from his desk. She'd managed to destroy his focus so easily, and for what? Another pointless fight?

11. Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding. - Krmi looked from the silky brown ears to Ruiqi and back. "You got me a dog?"

12. Do not wake me from this slumber, but be assured that just as I have wept much, I have also wandered many roads with my thoughts. - And then the little bird walked away, leaving her alone again, waiting, remembering.

13. Absolutely nothing visible to the eye provides a reason for or even evidence of those terrifying shifts which can in a matter of moments reconstitute a simple path into an extremely complicated one. - Jack Rose realized that this decision was not only probably a bad one, but one that would echo down the years like a swear word in a temple. He was going to regret this as an old man on his deathbed, assuming he actually made it there.

14. Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.) - Akane knew that she wanted more out of life than just being the one to which nothing happened. The hard part was convincing her mom. Most people's parents couldn't argue that it was scientifically important, after all.

15. Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you’ve never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you’ve 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. - Vien felt every slight too keenly, and considered it the fault of others that they did not.

16. Myth makes Echo the subject of longing and desire. Physics makes Echo the subject of distance and design. Where emotion and reason are concerned both claims are accurate. - Norton swore to whatever might be listening that, if he got another chance, he'd be a model of filial piety.

17. I want something else. I’m not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it’s drenched in sunlight and it’s weightless and I know it’s not cheap. It’s probably not even real. - That an orphan fantasizes about having a family was so common as to be cliched. It didn't stop any of them from doing it. Maybe it helped them feel a little normal, for a change.

18. May I suggest you drink plenty of wine and dance in the sheets of your wedding night, because whether you know it or not, now you are truly prosperous. - Robin twisted the ring, unfamiliar on his finger, and laughed with the wonderful impossibility of this moment.

19. Me feeling dumb and sad, a bit like a broken thermos- fine on the outside, but on the inside nothing but busted glass. - Robin sees physical injury as an expression of his feelings.

20. I will become, have become, a creature unstirred by history, no longer moved by the present, just hungry, blind and at long last filled of mindless wrath. - Chenek wants revenge. Also a good cigar, but mostly revenge.

Lines from House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski

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