Lydia Netzer Quotes

I will never forget the asymmetry of your eyes. it is transformative symmetry. it is the best symmetry. It is the symmetry that is beauty.

~ Lydia Netzer

Sunny put on eyebrows, eyelashes, makeup, matching pajamas, a silk robe, and then say looking at herself in the vanity mirror in her bathroom. She had experienced moments in her life when she realized that she was actually alive and living in the world, instead of watching a movie starring herself, or narrating a book with herself as the main character. This was not one of those moments. She felt like she was drifting one centimeter above her physical self, a spirit at odds with its mechanical counterpart. She stood up carefully. Everything looked just right.

~ Lydia Netzer

A child playing with its father screams louder, laughs harder, jumps more eagerly, puts more faith in everything.

~ Lydia Netzer

Maybe some people don't feel scared when they think about comets and supernovas. Maybe they think it is wonderful.

~ Lydia Netzer

Sleep is a shallow death we practice every night.

~ Lydia Netzer

As if it would slide off their brains at an angle, leaving a scuff mark.

~ Lydia Netzer

This is a love story about astronomy, he thought. Twin souls collide and love each other forever. And no one ever goes crazy. And no one ever dies. And the universe folds back on itself and clicks into place, and the pylons holding up the electrical wires are really trees. And the trees are really gods.

~ Lydia Netzer