Liam Callanan

The Cloud Atlas

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  • Nicoleta Petreahas quoted4 years ago
    There’s no one left,” he said again. “No one for me, no one for you.”
  • Laman Valizadahas quoted6 years ago
    I’m not sure there is a place closer to someone than being at their side, awake, while they’re asleep.
  • Laman Valizadahas quoted6 years ago
    we had, and to some extent, still have, Alaska -places you go to take leave of one life and start another.
  • Laman Valizadahas quoted6 years ago
    magic having failed both of you, at the mercy of gossips and gods and bishops and ravens.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    The Yup’ik say the tundra is haunted. But haunted is a white man’s word, and it doesn’t mean what the Yup’ik mean. The spirits found in the bush-animal and human, living and dead-do not haunt, they exist, as real and present as any other aspect of life: water, breath, food.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    point had been replaced with a not-quite-identical twin. The sky was a blanket, the water was ink, and there, in the bow of the boat, a woman I once knew was speaking a language I did not.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    wartime Alaska had always been a strange place, but we were streaming into something altogether different, a kind of dreamscape, where every reference
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    And Lily had trained me to believe in what I knew, what I knew because I was certain of it, not because I had evidence.
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    Replaying these memories, it seems unmistakable now to me how completely mad he was. And I don’t mean madness like the kind that doctors like to cure nowadays with dollops of prettily colored pills. I mean old-fashioned, Edgar Allan Poe-type madness
  • Darya Bukhtoyarovahas quoted7 years ago
    except it wasn’t called a park then. It was just the place where Anchorage gave up and the rest of Alaska began,
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