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Brutes
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Their search is determined and choreographed, and watching them, it is like we can hear their thoughts, loud as a chant. Where is she? Where is she? Where is she? They are toneless and militant and sure.
“Samantha Heather Mackey thinks we have everything under the sun, that we sleep on a bed of gold, and meanwhile she sleeps on a bed of dirt. That she has nothing, nothing, and she thinks this makes her deep. It doesn’t make you deep, Samantha Heather Mackey, it just makes you rumpled and it makes you smell of old potatoes”
― Bunny
― Bunny
“We feel one small heart break, but we look at one another and in our look is a reminder that we have already lived a hundred heartbreaks. We are foolish and resilient.”
― Brutes
― Brutes
“If she’d had the confidence then, if she’d known how to apply for a passport and buy a ticket and board a plane when she was young enough to walk away.”
― Summerwater
― Summerwater
“Molecule is a daunting word that turns out to have a simple meaning: a molecule is a group of atoms bound together. You are probably already familiar with atoms, like oxygen, carbon, and hydrogen. When atoms are linked together, we call the resulting structure a molecule.”
― A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
― A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
“We somehow know this is the last day we will ever paint our nails like her, ever scour the shelves at the pharmacy for her messages. We are no longer sure she is in control of her own mystery.”
― Brutes
― Brutes
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