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In Tongues
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I wished for a camera, then changed my mind, as it would miss exactly what was alive between the three of us then, showing instead our blemished skin and half-closed eyes, the woozy look on my face when I’m happy.
“I spent a lot of time alone, but I was rarely lonely because I like my own brain.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“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
“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
“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
“How brief and magical it was that we all lived so close to each other and went in and out of each other’s rooms, and our most important job was to solve mysteries. The temporariness made it all the more important to do the right thing—to follow the right leads.”
― Either/Or
― Either/Or
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