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PREFACE I’D HAD MORE THAN MY FAIR SHARE OF NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES; it wasn’t something you ever really got used to. It seemed oddly inevitable, though, facing death again. Like I really was marked for disaster. I’d escaped time and time
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“You read people’s books, and you think you know them. They’re having a conversation with you for hundreds of pages, and there’s an intimacy there that you develop on your own.”
― Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
― Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect
“Nobody knows anything at all. We have no idea what is happening. We are all bewildered. Someone may say that they understand something, to ourselves or to others, but they are wrong, or guessing, or making it up.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“When you apologize, it is a bit like reaching the last page of a book. The book is still there, with your wicked deed inside, but at least it is closed and put on a shelf. Every single thing I ought to have apologized for, and didn’t, is like a book lying open and unfinished.”
― Poison for Breakfast
― Poison for Breakfast
“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for.”
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Afinal de contas, a vida não é justamente esse constante acaso em que tudo, por mais inacreditável que seja, pode acontecer?”
― O Nariz / Diário de um Louco
― O Nariz / Diário de um Louco
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