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“My heart is made of glass,” he says as he starts to roll a cigarette. “My heart is made of glass and if I ever lose you, Betty, my heart will break into more hurt than eternity would have time to heal.”
“You cannot be a powerful and life-changing presence to some people without being a joke or an embarrassment to others.”
― Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
― Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
“The airlock opened before me, edgeless vacuity beyond. There were no winds here, no crashing waves. Only the cold constancy of stars, to which I was just a crude bit of wet carbon, a flake of skin you brush aside. My pain and pettiness and mistakes and inadequacies did not matter. I did not matter. Nothing we did out here mattered. Nothing we could or would ever do would matter, in the face of this.”
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
― To Be Taught, If Fortunate
“But I think life is so full of horrors that we just had to create love. It’s like sainthood, you know, bestowing love on a person. They are the miracle in your life, and that is why you tell them you love them. Love, mister, love makes tolerable the horror of living.”
― Grind Your Bones to Dust
― Grind Your Bones to Dust
“Rays of light reached up above the horizon and cut through distant clouds in desperate streaks of orange and red like a fire at the edge of the Earth. A pang of jealousy rippled through him. He would never burn as bright.”
― Grind Your Bones to Dust
― Grind Your Bones to Dust
“The only way you’ll ever really know people is to see them in a crisis. People do the worst things to each other, Newton. Just the worst. Friendships, family, love and brotherhood—toss it all out the window”
― The Troop
― The Troop
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