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The Shadows
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When you saw something awful, you had to put it away in a box. The box was something you kept locked in your head, and you only ever opened it to throw something else inside. The work, and the sights it brought you, had to be kept separate
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“... but in my marriage to Roy, I felt blessed in the old-fashioned sense, in the way that anyone would be in finding someone whose smell you enjoyed.”
― An American Marriage
― An American Marriage
“Of all the things to lose, to lose one's mind? Let them take a leg or a lung; let them take anything before they take that. Before you become "poor Rosemary" or "poor Frank," catching the last glimpses of the sun and seeing them for what they were. Before there were no more trips, no more games, no more Murder Clubs. Before there was no more you.”
― The Thursday Murder Club
― The Thursday Murder Club
“You know when you look into someone's eyes for the first time and the whole world breaks apart And you just think, "Of course, of course, this is what I've been waiting for all this time"?”
― The Thursday Murder Club
― The Thursday Murder Club
“So we were all witnesses to a murder" says Elizabeth "Which, needless to say, is wonderful”
― The Thursday Murder Club
― The Thursday Murder Club
“asked him what exactly he meant by that. “When somebody says something about me on radio or TV, or when they write articles in the papers or tabloids, I don’t combat it, and I don’t try to correct it. I give no credence to any of it. I just let it become their reality. I know it’s not true, but that becomes the image that is created. It really doesn’t matter what a bunch of people I don’t know think of me. My family and my true friends know who I am.”
― Talking to GOATs
― Talking to GOATs
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