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It came up like bile, the need to say something mean and biting, the desire to cut her down for her stupidity. The want to make her feel small. But soon, that feeling gave way to sadness. I felt sorry for her. Sorry that every part of her
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“They were proof that life was basically a short dream on a Sunday afternoon.”
― Laurie
― Laurie
“[W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“Everyone says that he fell because he flew too close to the sun,” his father said, “but he flew, do you see what I mean, Son? He was able to fly. It doesn’t matter if you fall, if you were a bird for even just a few seconds.”
― Tender Is the Flesh
― Tender Is the Flesh
“Yet he supposed a lot of finding out happened like this: completely by accident. You were just going along, minding your own business and all at once the past side-swiped you.”
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
“He was more than a little afraid of his mom, and this fear was only partly caused by how angry she could get and how long she could bear a grudge. Mostly it grew from an unhappy sense of being loved only a little and needing to protect what love there was.”
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
― Low Men In Yellow Coats
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