“If you are tired of everything you possess, imagine that you have lost all these things.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“My plan was to never get married. I was going to be an art monster instead. Women almost never become art monsters because art monsters only concern themselves with art, never mundane things. Nabokov didn't even fold his own umbrella. Vera licked his stamps for him.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“When she tells people she might move to the country, they say, But aren’t you afraid you’re going to get lonely? Get?”
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― Dept. of Speculation
“If I had to sum up what he did to me, I’d say it was this: he made me sing along to all the bad songs on the radio. Both when he loved me and when he didn't.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“What would it be like to make it so late into life before trouble hit? To always have someone on the front porch, calling you to dinner? The husband doesn’t have even a touch of this raised-by-wolvesness.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
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