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"I sure am glad this guy grew up in Belfast because I’m trying to imagine writing something like this about Melissa, Texas and it just is not hitting the same" — Jan 24, 2026 09:39AM
"I sure am glad this guy grew up in Belfast because I’m trying to imagine writing something like this about Melissa, Texas and it just is not hitting the same" — Jan 24, 2026 09:39AM
“Dallas appealed to Wren for the reasons some people disliked it. At first glance unspecialized, covered with characterless concrete, flat, and landlocked, the city felt big enough to disappear in but not big enough to get lost in.”
― Shark Heart
― Shark Heart
“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
― A Prayer for Owen Meany
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations
“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
― The Winter of Our Discontent
― The Winter of Our Discontent
“Everyone had secret corners and alleys that no one else saw -- what mattered were your major streets and boulevards, the stuff that showed up on other people's maps of you.”
― Harlem Shuffle
― Harlem Shuffle
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