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He said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?
“For those who feel homesick for a place they’ve never been to. Those who seek even if they do not know what (or where) it is that they are seeking. Those who seek will find. Their doors have been waiting for them.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Spiritual but not religious,” Zachary clarifies. He doesn’t say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the silence of freshly fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“The young feel pain intensely, I think, because they don’t know yet how deep it can go.”
― The Last House on Needless Street
― The Last House on Needless Street
“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“A reading major, that's what he wants. No response papers, no exams, no analysis, just the reading.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
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