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“You think you get a dose of tragedy and that's that. You think it can't get any worse and that you're saved now. But tragedy is not like medicine. You don't get a dose like a pill or a spoonful. Tragedy always kicks in.”
― Gun Love
― Gun Love
“Everyone in this town is frightening and friendly and kind and awful. But everyone everywhere is.”
― It Devours!
― It Devours!
“Strange, she thought, how affected you are by malice when you're a kid, how a mean work or look can unravel you, how devastating cruelty feels when you're too young to protect yourself. But eventually, after all those defense mechanisms are firmly in place, it's the so-called positive shit - mercy, not malice - that brings you to tears.”
― Vacuum in the Dark
― Vacuum in the Dark
“Dreaming is cheap. It doesn't cost a thing. In dreams you don't have to pay the bills or pay the rent. In dreams you can buy a house and be loved back.”
― Gun Love
― Gun Love
“Was it even possible to forgive the dead? Was forgiveness an emotion, or a transaction that required a partner? I had made a promise to someone who would never see it kept. I wanted to respect my grandfather's wish, and it would have been no trouble to evade my mother's question. Keeping secrets was the family business. But it was a business, it seemed to me, that none of us had ever profited from.”
― Moonglow
― Moonglow
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