“When he was a young man the mysteries of the world seemed like generosity--you can think anything you want! Now the universe withheld things. It was like luck. Luck once meant anything could happen. Now it meant he was doomed. But maybe it didn't need to.”
― Bowlaway
― Bowlaway
“No generation is ever spontaneous. We are none of us our own kind.”
― Bowlaway
― Bowlaway
“Memories are by their nature fragmented, isolated, and arbitrary as glimpses one has at night through lighted windows.”
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“It was the chuckle of ultimate truth, the smile of an actress right after the director says cut, the intimate joy of seeing the other's soul naked and acknowledging yours is naked too.”
― This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us
― This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us
“Maybe better that way, to not know our parents, to love them as we move away from them--they're on the shore and we're on a ship, moving away; later we will switch places as they sail away from us, and we say to them, a little longer.”
― Bowlaway
― Bowlaway
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