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All the Colors of the Dark

by Chris Whitaker (Goodreads Author)

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May 05, 2026 01:56PM

“Detail exists not only to make us remember the things we don’t want to, but to remind us that there are some things we don’t deserve to forget.”
― Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

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“This was yet another good thing about drinking, of course: not that drinking made you forget things, but that it made it possible for you to plausibly pretend you’d forgotten things.”
― Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

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“... I also empathized, because she'd tried to do these things out of love, and because she had bumbled the attempt, and I suppose this - the ability to empathize with the people we hate - is exactly the quality that makes us human beings, which makes you wonder why anyone would want to be one.”
― Brock Clarke, An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

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“It bewildered Ig, the idea that a person could not be interested in music. It was like not being interested in happiness.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

tags: inspirational, music

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“I guess Satan was the first superhero [...] In his first adventure, he took the form of a snake to free two prisoners being held naked in a Third World jungle prison by an all-powerful megalomaniac. At the same time, he broadened their diet and introduced them to their own sexuality.”
― Joe Hill, Horns

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