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While I might be a little nostalgic for the innocence, the grace, that existed before my behavior became consciously calculated, my life was full of pain and fear then, and it wasn’t even really innocent either.
“Everyone was addicted to saying you went into a cocoon to grow wings and emerge as a beautiful miracle. But what no one ever mentioned was how the caterpillar’s body actually broke down inside the cocoon, turning to mush before its reconstruction. Sometimes the hardest part about your twenties was knowing what stage you were in: if you had been mush, were currently mushing down, or had mush yet ahead of you.”
― Mood Swings: A Novel
― Mood Swings: A Novel
“No, she would never have fucked Mr. Burns, not even on a dare.”
― Mood Swings: A Novel
― Mood Swings: A Novel
“each man's hell is in a different place:
mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”
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mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”
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“You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real.”
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“All her thoughts, feelings, and memories in the air mixed with all the thoughts, feelings, and memories of everyone else whose bones and brains had decayed, and maybe in some ways that was the weather. Everyone all together across the world, their happiness and disappointments jumbled together so that for their children the air became so thick it was difficult to breathe.”
― Mood Swings: A Novel
― Mood Swings: A Novel
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