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His fears seemed to be an expression of conservatism. He was afraid of losing the familiar.
“You're really going to the river, then?"
"I said I would."
"What we say and what we do are..."
"Well, I do what I say. Which is why I don't say much.”
― Between Two Fires
"I said I would."
"What we say and what we do are..."
"Well, I do what I say. Which is why I don't say much.”
― Between Two Fires
“I pulled out my lighter and flicked my wrist to snap it open and light the flame in one motion. (If you do it right, it looks very suave. I used to practice it for hours as a teenager, in hopes of impressing girls.)”
― What Stalks the Deep
― What Stalks the Deep
“For the longest time, talking about her—thinking about her—was an exercise in agony, because I couldn’t separate my wife from the fact of her death. Then, gradually, that stopped being the case. My memory relaxed its grip on Marie’s death; although it felt more as if her dying loosened its hold on me.”
― The Fisherman
― The Fisherman
“I think you spout vulgarity all the time because you’re afraid to see the big part of yourself that’s good.”
― Between Two Fires
― Between Two Fires
“But there are some things, no matter if they’re true, you can’t live with them. You have to refuse them. You turn your eyes away from whatever’s squatting right there in front of you and not only pretend it isn’t there now, but that you never saw it in the first place. You do so because your soul is a frail thing that can’t stand the blast-furnace heat of revelation, and truth be damned.”
― The Fisherman
― The Fisherman
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