The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.

Siri Hustvedt
Some Similar Quotes
  1. Do you think we can be friends?” I asked. He stared up at the ceiling. “Probably not, but we can pretend. - Priya Ardis

  2. When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always. - Alice Hoffman

  3. ...he had a way of taking your hand which made it clear he'd have to be the one to let go." From Alice Hoffman's "Local Girls", pg.102. - Alice Hoffman

  4. Vane grabbed me. “DuLac, let’s chat.” British-speak for “Stand still while I yell at you. - Priya Ardis

  5. So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it. - Margaret George

More Quotes By Siri Hustvedt
  1. There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

  2. Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

  3. We chart delusions through collective agreement.

  4. I was happy without having sought happiness.

  5. I had no friends. Was I happy? I was wildly happy. Sitting on my bed, which took up most of the space in that narrow room, I whispered prayers of thanks that I was really and truly here in New York, beginning another life. I...

Related Topics