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A gangly-looking woman across from me started smacking her arms. She had chicken-pox skin, and her jaundice flesh glowed a rusty brown. Her father had forgotten about her long ago, that was certain.
In the context of this story, this line cuts like a razor.
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“The highest wisdom is sometimes found in the lowest people.”
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“To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.”
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“Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.”
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“You are what you love, not what loves you. ”
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“Someone asked me what home was, and all I could think of were the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your rib cage.”
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