Matthew Purnell
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“Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is what she has made of my life.”
― Snow, Glass, Apples
― Snow, Glass, Apples
“Nostalgia is recall without the criticism of the present day, all the good parts, memory without the pain. Finally, nostalgia asks so little of us, just to be noticed and revisited;”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.”
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“My favorite kind of musical experience is to feel afterward that your heart is filled up and transformed, like it is pumping a whole new kind of blood into your veins. This is what it is to be a fan: curious, open, desiring for connection, to feel like art has chosen you, claimed you as its witness.”
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
― Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir
“Betsy: "Do you have daddy issues, Warren?"
Warren: "Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.”
― Uncanny X-Force, Vol. 4: The Dark Angel Saga, Book 2
Warren: "Dad was supportive, intelligent, read to me as a kid, left me a trillion dollars. It's hard to complain.”
― Uncanny X-Force, Vol. 4: The Dark Angel Saga, Book 2
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