“I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
“Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis.”
— James Joyce, book Dubliners
"The Sisters"
Dubliners (1914)
Context: Every night as I gazed up at the window I said to myself softly the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism. But now it sounded to me like the name of some maleficent and sinful being. It filled me with fear, and yet I longed to be nearer to it and to look upon its deadly work.
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