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The next significant incursion, after the potato, was Edmund Hillary.
“He's not mine. I can tell he's thinking about someone else. I feel like he keeps slipping through my fingers, even while he's within reach. I've never felt this way before.”
― Love or Hate
― Love or Hate
“Fishwives. Fishwidows. And we all set out to be mermaids.”
― Bear
― Bear
“The Canadian tradition was, she had found, on the whole genteel. Any evidence that an ancestor had performed any acts other than working and praying was usually destroyed. Families handily became respectable in retrospect but it was...hell on history.”
― Bear
― Bear
“Listen, most people gravitate towards crap. They get a crap husband or a crap job, maybe a crap house or car. It makes them feel like crap. But that's what they're used to, so that's what they go to. Plants always grow towards the light and the food. They are smart enough to reach for the good things in life. They're not dumb. Don't forget that.”
― Mountain of Fangs
― Mountain of Fangs
“Growing up, I believed in all sorts of fantastic things. Ghosts and aliens, monsters that brought on nightmares and fed on fear. The fantasies materialized every time I closed my eyes, making me afraid to fall asleep. I'm still scared of sleeping alone. The yawn the sneeze, the breath of whoever's lying next to me retrieves me from the nightmares. Even though I'm all grown up. I say it like a joke, and it usually gives people a laugh. "You're still a little kid," they say. It's lonely being in a big bed all by myself. It's never hurt my feelings. They're only strangers.”
― Love or Hate
― Love or Hate
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