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Everyone affected by war, captivity, or oppression reacts differently—and away from it, people might try to guess how
“Smart cookie. I am smart, but I am not a snack object dispensed from a packaged food machine. What a preposterous thing to say.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
“Why can humans not use their millions of words to simply tell one another what they desire?”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
“Tova has always felt more than a bit of empathy for the sharks, with their never-ending laps around the tank. She understands what it means to never be able to stop moving, lest you find yourself unable to breathe.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
“Tova wonders sometimes if it’s better that way, to have one’s tragedies clustered together, to make good use of the existing rawness. Get it over with in one shot. Tova knew there was a bottom to those depths of despair. Once your soul was soaked though with grief, any more simply ran off, overflowed, the way maple syrup on Saturday-morning pancakes always cascaded onto the table whenever Erik was allowed to pour it himself.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
“Some trees aren’t meant to sprout tender new branches, but to stand stoically on the forest floor, silently decaying.”
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
― Remarkably Bright Creatures
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