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“It’s like Kazuo Ishiguro said: “I’m more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.”
― Praying Drunk: Stories
― Praying Drunk: Stories
“To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
“Nothing new can happen here, so all you do is think about the days of life when possibility hadn't been ripped from you forever, when anything could happen, and wonder why so much was squandered, so much wasted.”
― Praying Drunk
― Praying Drunk
“Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“Cruelty never helped the turning of the world.”
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
― The Slow Regard of Silent Things
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