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“I imagined a quiet future in an imaginary world where nothing ever really happened but everything seemed charged with life.”
― Wolf in White Van
― Wolf in White Van
“I had once asked him if he felt happy hiding in the internet and he said yes, it was his home. On a good day it is the bright field that contains all souls but on a bad day it is the final darkness, where misery is gapingly exposed.”
― The Secret Life: Three True Stories
― The Secret Life: Three True Stories
“It’s just that when Isobel says things, Laura believes them, and when Virginia says things Laura believes them, too; it’s just that Laura knows she is so soft, soft enough that anyone can shape her, and she knows enough to know this softness makes her weak.”
― The World Cannot Give
― The World Cannot Give
“There are truths I haven’t even told God. And not even myself. I am a secret under the lock of seven keys.”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
“Where were my allies? My sad captains? Those moonsick girls I drank with over long winters behind the bowling alley, driven there in cars we didn't know. Those times when we were all strangers and everything was so far away but all we needed to do was run towards it. I had not grown much. I had not reached anywhere. I was still running. When I wasn't lying down.”
― Animals
― Animals
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