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when Owen died, a very old man in a house far away to the south, there were seven decades of agony caged in him, held down by liquor and a steely pride, and by various acts of bastardry his family could never quite manage to forget.
“So much can fit into one human heart. Each of us can be, if we get lost, a little ark of vast demons ferried from life to life.”
― The Future Was Color
― The Future Was Color
“Stupid men and their stupid violence. Tearing apart everything good that was ever built. Why couldn't you ever just go after your life without tripping over some idiot's dick?”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
― Einstein’s Dreams
― Einstein’s Dreams
“Why are you looking at me so dramatically?” “I don’t know,” I say. “Isn’t that what you do when you kiss someone?”
― You Exist Too Much
― You Exist Too Much
“It must be so sad to die, to feel yourself miss out on everything that will come after, even if there are still bombs and diseases and disasters, even if people do get murdered and beaten, if they die in unspeakable pain, if it is still a fact that some live with their damaged bodies, or simply their aged bodies, bodies that were once beautiful and now are not.”
― The Future Was Color
― The Future Was Color
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