{"author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski","total_quotes":36,"quotes":[{"text":"Do we miss not only the past but every future the lost past describes? Is that just the nature of missing? All the lost might-have-beens? The certainty that those uncertain futures are gone?","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["anwar","future","miss"],"id":7765,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"},{"text":"Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["irony","philosophy","truth"],"id":9583,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"},{"text":"In the end Navidson is left with one page and one match. For a long time he waits in darkness and cold, postponing this final bit of illumination. At last though, he grips the match by the neck and after locating the friction strip sparks to life a final ball of light.First, he reads a few lines by match light and then as the heat bites his fingertips he applies the flame to the page. Here then is one end: a final act of reading, a final act of consumption. And as the fire rapidly devours the paper, Navidson's eyes frantically sweep down over the text, keeping just ahead of the necessary immolation, until as he reaches the last few words, flames lick around his hands, ash peels off into the surrounding emptiness, and then as the fire retreats, dimming, its light suddenly spent, the book is gone leaving nothing behind but invisible traces already dismantled in the dark.","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["books","consumption","reading"],"id":22498,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"},{"text":"Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["books"],"id":40072,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"},{"text":"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, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["genius","genre-crossing","horror-novels","house-of-leaves","love","mark-z-danielewski","metaphyscial","postmodernism","romance"],"id":45407,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"},{"text":"My dear girl, is it that you are so lonely that you had to create this?","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["loneliness"],"id":64952,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"},{"text":"Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["double-entendre","drinking","tequila"],"id":97842,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"},{"text":"Love of love written by the broken hearted, love of life written by the dead.","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["love"],"id":108106,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"},{"text":"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.","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["slumber","thoughts","wept"],"id":116440,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"},{"text":"Sometimes it's just silent...No sound at all.'Does that scare you?'Chad nods. 'Why?' asks his father.'It's like something's waiting.","author":"Mark Z. Danielewski","tags":["fear","silence"],"id":118518,"author_id":"Mark+Z.+Danielewski"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":36,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}