“Gender is a shell game. What is a man? Whatever a woman isn't. What is a woman? Whatever a man is not. Tap on it and it's hollow. Look under the shells: it's not there.”
― The Power
― The Power
“There is a noise that is different to grief. Sadness wails and cries and lets loose a sound to the heavens like a baby calling for its mother. That kind of noisy grief is hopeful. It believes that things can be put right, or that help can come. There is a different kind of sound to that. Babies left alone too long do not even cry. They become very still and quiet. They know no one is coming.”
― The Power
― The Power
“It’s a hard feeling but as we walk along I begin to settle and let the difference between my life at home and the one I have here be.”
― Foster
― Foster
“I spent a lot of time alone, but I was rarely lonely because I like my own brain.”
― Big Swiss
― Big Swiss
“This water is cool and clean as anything I have ever tasted; it tastes of my father leaving, of him never having been there, of having nothing after he was gone.”
― Foster
― Foster
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