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“I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“I think buddy is man talk for sweetie.”
― Room
― Room
“Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all.
It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.”
― Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.”
― Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970
“Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.”
― Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.”
― Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt
“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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