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“The human heart, it seems to me after careful consideration, is like water. Push it and it gives way; pull back, and it comes flowing in.”
― The Miner
― The Miner
“When I call him a fool, I mean it only in the sense that he was just as pitiful a creature as I was, and implying the sympathy of one fool for another.”
― The Miner
― The Miner
“The darkness of the mine, the darkness of my mind: the two became one and indivisible. I did not sleep, however. Of that I'm sure. In the stillness, my consciousness became highly attenuated, that's all. But even this attenuated consciousness was one part real world in ten parts water. As diluted as I became, it never quite disappeared.”
― The Miner
― The Miner
“They don’t realize that water never comes back once it’s flowed away; while you’re dillydallying, it evaporates.”
― The Miner
― The Miner
“How is it I'm begging you for housing,
when you burnt my building down?
You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those
other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls,
all straight jargon, and nothing but the jargon.”
― A Portable Paradise
when you burnt my building down?
You all ain't even playing fake-nice, like those
other murderers. You are all cut-eye and snarls,
all straight jargon, and nothing but the jargon.”
― A Portable Paradise
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