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He watched the bonfire’s smoke rise into the sky and wondering if his dad was being cremated as he sat there.
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“As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.”
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“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.”
― The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
― The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer
“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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