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The Patient
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I learned the hard way in my first months that you don’t point out reality to people who have delusions. It doesn’t help, and they just get angry.
“Strange, isn’t it? To love a book. When the words on the pages become so precious that they feel like part of your own history because they are. It’s nice to finally have someone read stories I know so intimately.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“I accepted because mysterious ladies offering bourbon under the stars is very much my aesthetic.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“You pride yourself on being a realist, I told myself, so face the facts. There’s been a coup, here in the United States, just as in times past in so many other countries. Any forced change of leadership is always followed by a move to crush the opposition. The opposition is led by the educated, so the educated are the first to be eliminated.”
― The Testaments
― The Testaments
“...it tastes older than stories. It tastes like myth.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
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