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“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
“Spring comes into Massachusetts with her famous flame. God’s breath warming the winter out of things”
― Days Without End
― Days Without End
“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
“Then rain began to fall in an extravagant tantrum. High up in mountain country though we were, every little river became a huge muscled snake, and the water wanted to find out everything,”
― Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
― Days Without End: AN IRISH TIMES BEST IRISH BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
“Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, but that’s about the extent of their relationship.”
― The Force
― The Force
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