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“But even so. The boy can't boil water or heat bread on the eye of the stove. Leaves the milk out of the fridge. Tries to cut an apple in the night and I wake up to blood spattered on the kitchen floor, seeds everywhere. There is all the evidence of a past tended by a woman's hands.”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
“For a moment, Dexter had a fleeting but perfectly clear memory of himself at his mother's funeral, curled up on the bathroom floor while Emma held onto him and stroked his hair. Yet somehow he had managed to treat this as nothing, to throw it all away for dross.”
― One Day
― One Day
“he had given up gluten and diary and daughters.”
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
― If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
“I thought about how the world can be anything and how sad it is that it's this.”
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
― Chain-Gang All-Stars
“D'you realise I literally haven't seen you sober for, what, three years? I've forgotten what you're like sober, you're too busy boring on about yourself or your new pals or running to the loo every ten minutes -- I don't know if it's dysentery or too much coke, but either way it's fucking rude and most of all it's boring. Even when you talk to me you're looking over my shoulder in case there's some better option...”
― One Day
― One Day
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