Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents—the rest you let float by.
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“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”
― My Name Is Mary Sutter
― My Name Is Mary Sutter
“It looked like someone's grandmothers house, that it might smell like sugar cookies and Rose Milk lotion inside.”
― Other Birds
― Other Birds
“No museum is better guarded than the human heart.”
― Vexation Lullaby
― Vexation Lullaby
“I'm not generally in a hurry. I lost my hurry a long time ago. Why rush? Where do I need to get so fast? Just the opposite, my everyday life centres around small actions aimed at helping pass the time, making it disappear into a series of unimportant motions completed without the slightest hint of urgency.”
― A Little Luck
― A Little Luck
“Is anything more American than our right to reinvent ourselves?”
― Vexation Lullaby
― Vexation Lullaby
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