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Local Woman Missing

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The Grip of It

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Vanessa’s Quotes

“I'm all right," I told her. This is a lie, when you're twelve. And all the other years, too.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior

tags: lies

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“What happens to people who live inside their phones?”
― Don DeLillo, The Silence

tags: dystopia

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“Junior Junior Junior." Every fourth person on our reservation, that's their name, like the same stupid person is trying life after life until he gets it right at last.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, Mapping the Interior

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“It seemed to him that he was compelled, by virtue of his wretched calling, to live the lives of a whole lot of other people, instead of quietly getting on with his own.”
― Georges Simenon

tags: maigret

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“Maigret had always had a weakness for kitchens, with their appetizing smells and piles of good things to eat, plump vegetables, juicy meat, poultry waiting to be plucked.”
― Georges Simenon, Maigret & The Toy Village

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