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After it was all over, everyone had to call him Father, but I called him that anyway, so it made no difference to me. All fathers believe they are God, and I took it for granted that my father especially believed it.
“Though loss did not pass from one person to another like a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers.”
― The Color Master: Stories
― The Color Master: Stories
“I’ve learned what my contemporaries will have learned in their first terms at college, or university—that the first friends you make in a new place are the ones you usually spend the next three terms trying to lose, and that it’s the people who are quietly holding back, and standing in the corner, that you will want to be with, when your second year comes around.”
― How to Build a Girl
― How to Build a Girl
“As a bridesmaid, on the morning of the wedding you will be unfolding the rusty metal legs of a banquet table and in the distance you will see a useless groomsman playing Frisbee with a dog. To rub salt in the wound, he might lightly ask, “Is there anything I can do to help?” knowing full well no self-respecting bridesmaid will task him with any job because he will do it too slowly.”
― Why Not Me?
― Why Not Me?
“He had a good face to him, something chunky in his nose that I could get behind.”
― The Color Master: Stories
― The Color Master: Stories
“When she came back inside, she was gripping a yogurt cup someone had thrown near our side strip of garden. “Plastic doesn’t cycle.” She shrugged off her coat. “Right? We recycle it, but it can’t do anything on its own, and all it can ever do is be itself again. It is the worst kind of reincarnation. Lame! That is so lame! And it’s everywhere!” she cried, going to the bathroom to splash water on her face.”
― The Color Master: Stories
― The Color Master: Stories
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