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“I honestly don’t understand why we have to leave like thieves in the middle of the night.” “We’re not thieves,” Beamer said. “It’s a red-eye. Normal people take red-eyes. Jews bury their dead immediately. It’s how it goes.”
“My thinking has always been that if love, marriage, and family were intrinsically so meaningful, so exceptional, and so necessary, then we wouldn't need millennia of propaganda selling them to us.”
― A Certain Hunger
― A Certain Hunger
“One day and it will surprise you how soon this day will come, but one day you will wake up and feel good. It won’t last long, but then you’ll have another day where you barely remember this abjection, and another, and another, until that’s just your life. But for now, it will be hard. This is the part that’s hard.”
― Really Good, Actually
― Really Good, Actually
“Yes, people age horribly. They suffer strokes. Their bodies and brains fall apart. But the male ego? Firmly intact until the bitter end.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“I spent a lot of time alone, but I was rarely lonely because I like my own brain.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“The hole is loneliness,' said Cleo quietly.
'Why's that?' said Audrey,
'You can't stand above someone and tell them to get out of it,' she said. 'Or teach or preach it out of them. You have to be in it with them.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
'Why's that?' said Audrey,
'You can't stand above someone and tell them to get out of it,' she said. 'Or teach or preach it out of them. You have to be in it with them.”
― Cleopatra and Frankenstein
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