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“The stories are everywhere, you cannot avoid them. Every day you tell a story to yourself; the details of your day become a part of your myth. It is reordered. It is made sense of.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“But the truth of the matter was they fought because Jun was grieving and Keema was terrified and Jun was exhilarated and Keema was joyful and Jun was exhausted and Keema was repulsed.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water

“But a part of me still revolts against the notion that this is our basic nature; that we are, in essence, self-serving creatures. That love is an explainable construct and souls are a pretty feint to distract ourselves from our own cruel emptiness.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Vanished Birds

“If on listened, one could hear it in their voices. One can tell a lot, even in such a state, by the way someone speaks another's name.”
― Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water