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“Once upon a time we had our honest living that was God and country. Then the world turns and there’s no God anymore, no country, but it’s still in your blood that coal is God’s gift and you want to believe. Because otherwise it was one more scam in the fuck-train that’s railroaded over these mountains since George Washington rode in and set his crew to cutting down our trees. Everything that could be taken is gone. Mountains left with their heads blown off, rivers running black. My people are dead of trying, or headed that way, addicted as we are to keeping ourselves alive. There’s no more blood here to give, just war wounds. Madness. A world of pain, looking to be killed.”
― Demon Copperhead
― Demon Copperhead
“We blow out a soap-bubble as long and as large as possible, although with the perfect certainty that it will burst.” In this view, happiness is impossible, because of all these goals. Goals are the source of misery. An unattained goal causes pain, but actually achieving it brings only a brief satisfaction.”
― Reasons to Stay Alive
― Reasons to Stay Alive
“Isn’t that what life is about? Forging forward with the answer you have – stumbling along the way and picking yourself up – only to one day realise that the answer you’ve held on to for a long time is not the right one. When that happens, it’s time to look for the next answer. That’s how ordinary folks, like herself, live. Over our life span, the right answer will keep changing.”
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
― Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop
“When your own mother pretends you don't exist, it is like you are dead”
― Girl, Woman, Other
― Girl, Woman, Other
“I walk through the supermarket convinced that this time will be the time live up to my trolley, and it never is, and the fridge is where all those good intentions go to die, where they stay until I fish their grim corpses out of the bottom of the vegetable drawer.”
― Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
― Midnight Chicken: & Other Recipes Worth Living For
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