Favorite quotes from the mountain (Paul Yoon)
What made someone give up a life and start another?
(p. 21)
He wonders what it means for someone to be a painter. What it takes for someone to stop doing the thing he has always done.
(p. 32)
She sits beside Oliver, this man casually drinking his wine, and recognizes that her life these past four years has been moments with strangers. Or perhaps it always was. What terrifies her is that she don't know if this makes up a life
(p. 77)
Then, when she couldn't go on any longer, she felt a shift inside of her. A restructuring. As though there was something new inside, somewhere beneath her ribs. Or something old she never knew was there.
(p. 95)
I got used to her being away and without being aware of this at first, I began to form a life that no longer included her. She took up less and less space in my mind. I understood it was the same for her. That it would always be this way.
(p. 216)
(p. 21)
He wonders what it means for someone to be a painter. What it takes for someone to stop doing the thing he has always done.
(p. 32)
She sits beside Oliver, this man casually drinking his wine, and recognizes that her life these past four years has been moments with strangers. Or perhaps it always was. What terrifies her is that she don't know if this makes up a life
(p. 77)
Then, when she couldn't go on any longer, she felt a shift inside of her. A restructuring. As though there was something new inside, somewhere beneath her ribs. Or something old she never knew was there.
(p. 95)
I got used to her being away and without being aware of this at first, I began to form a life that no longer included her. She took up less and less space in my mind. I understood it was the same for her. That it would always be this way.
(p. 216)
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