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“If your life can hang from a chewing gum wrapper it can hang from anything in the book. It can hang from a bullet no bigger than a bean, or from a cigarette smoked in bed, or a bad breakfast that causes the doctor to sew the absorbent cotton inside you. From a slick tire tread or the hiccups or from kissing the wrong woman. Life is a rental proposition with no lease. For everybody, tall and short, muscles and fat, white and yellow, rich and poor. I know that now. And it is good to know at a time like this”
― Black Wings Has My Angel
― Black Wings Has My Angel
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. —Flannery O’Connor,”
― Out of the Woods
― Out of the Woods
“Sometimes," said Kaz, "a proper thief doesn't just take. He leaves something behind.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Books long to be read as we humans long to be loved.”
― The Housemistress
― The Housemistress
“And I suppose that what I have learned is a lesson that the years, or self-concern, had begun to hide from me, namely, that the bravest and most loyal and loving people in the world seldom have heroic physical characteristics or the auras of saints. In fact, their faces are like those of people whom you might randomly pull out of a supermarket line, their physical makeup so nondescript and unremarkable that it's hard to remember what they look like ten minutes after they walk out of a room.”
― A Morning for Flamingos
― A Morning for Flamingos
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