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“If he’d explained his reasoning with humor, rather than with condescension, she might have stayed sane; now she’d grind his bones to make her bread.
-The Widow Nash”
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-The Widow Nash”
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“....shit happened, and you molded the mess into the next best option.”
― The Center of Everything: A Novel
― The Center of Everything: A Novel
“Good mothers, good mothers were rarities, the center of everything.”
― The Center of Everything: A Novel
― The Center of Everything: A Novel
“For an adult, any second's physical status is a gray area, because nothing in your body is ever entirely right. When you're a child, the baseline feeling of wellness is so profound that any variation--a sunburn, an itch, gas--is intolerable, mind-boggling. Sometimes an adult gets a glimpse of this past paradise--swimming, a moment before orgasm, tasting food--but small damages coat mind and skin and muscle with a kind of indifferent hair shirt. To healthy, first-world children, the body is an absolute, and discomfort brings collapse.”
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“A definition of true death was that it happened when the last person who remembered you died,..”
― The Center of Everything: A Novel
― The Center of Everything: A Novel
