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The River
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With everything seeming to fall apart, good habits were one thing to hold on to.
“A tale has many tails, and many heads, particularly if it’s true. Like life, it is a river with many branches, rivulets, creeks, and distributaries.”
― The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel
― The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother): A Novel
“He was born the day he first heard the song of a whale, and he has been finding ways to record them ever since. In one moment high and squeaking like the top note of a violin, in the next guttural, echoing, some space between the moan of a cow and the trumpet of an elephant. Sometimes joyous and playful, sometimes mournful and searching. Sometimes with a trill or a creak or a rumble. A question, a call, a love letter.”
― Wild Dark Shore
― Wild Dark Shore
“Praying was a way to interrupt your own habitual thinking”
― Stone Yard Devotional
― Stone Yard Devotional
“The old method for dealing with bad dreams is to tell them aloud above the toilet bowl”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
“Anger makes the mind clear and incisive”
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
― Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
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