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She was like the first draft of a human being, before softening effects like humor and mercy had been added.
“Home is watching the moon rise over the open, sleeping land and having someone you can call to the window, so you can look together. Home is where you dance with others, and dancing is life.”
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“Liz's opinions of people hardened swiftly; when she wrote BAD under her mental picture of you, she almost always wrote in ink. p. 30”
― Hearts in Atlantis
― Hearts in Atlantis
“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
“[W]hen you see beauty in desolation it changes something inside you. Desolation tries to colonize you.”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“They were proof that life was basically a short dream on a Sunday afternoon.”
― Laurie
― Laurie
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