#lance olsen

(Somebody will always be waiting for you who doesn’t know he or she is waiting for you.)

I guess this comes as no surprise to anybody, but I’m not a strong believer in linear narrative, alluring as it might seem. Linearity teaches us through its structure that life is an interlocking whole that moves uniformly and comprehensibly from beginning to end. But my sense of being alive is very nearly the opposite.

I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

According to a Berkeley study, a person touches his or her face on average 16 times an hour. Perhaps, I'm guessing, to make sure it's still there.

[[it's remarkable the human eye doesn't fail more quickly, given all it lets in during a lifetime]]