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The tiny town of Hawksburg suffocated her like the washed-out confines of a tintype photo.
“The plot was full of holes, of course, but nobody expects short stories to make sense.”
― Strange Beasts of China
― Strange Beasts of China
“When you love a person, you are expected to give them their freedom, but when you love a monster, you keep it caged.”
― Untethered Sky
― Untethered Sky
“I had to laugh, but remembered feeling the same sorrow when I was younger, and telling my mother, 'One day we'll all be dead and the streets will be empty. Who's going to sweep them?”
― Strange Beasts of China
― Strange Beasts of China
“The stories that I like, the ones that make me jealous and fill me with wild desire to write just like them have the same dazzling logic as the old Basque man; there's a piece missing, and that gap transforms them into a myth.”
― Hipotermia
― Hipotermia
“I understood not that his innocence didn't come from not knowing anything, but rather from having seen everything there was to see, understanding it, and setting it down. He'd let go of what I hadn't been able to.”
― Strange Beasts of China
― Strange Beasts of China
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