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“I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me back, and it's ended. A patient comes in, and she is sick, and I love her, and then she dies, and I never see her again. This is what I live for. Don't think that it's sad.”
― Patrick Somerville, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

“She believed in God for the same reason anybody does: it is unbearable to think that our private thoughts are truly private.”
― Elizabeth McCracken, Bowlaway

“As you got older and time went on, you realized that the distinction between truth and fiction didn’t really matter because eventually everything disappeared into the soupy, amnesiac mess of history. Personal or political, it made no difference.”
― Kate Atkinson, A God in Ruins

“Even drunk, I knew any escape plan that involved going to Detroit, Michigan, was a harbinger of doom.”
― Mat Johnson, Pym