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“She thinks, I want an orange soda. And I want vodka to mix into the orange soda. And while we're at it, I'd also like to stop being able to see how people are going to bite it. Oh, and a pony. I definitely want a goddamn pony.”
― Blackbirds
― Blackbirds
“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.”
― Infinite Jest
― Infinite Jest
“Oh, please. Everyone in this town always says that, like you have to be born here to understand things. I understand plenty. You're only as weird as you want to be.”
― First Frost
― First Frost
“I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own.”
― The Chosen
― The Chosen
“The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.”
― Pattern Recognition
― Pattern Recognition
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