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The mist would have curled anyway: it was experienced mist and had got curling down to a fine art.
“He had never told her how the school kitchen had been like the land of giants...his mother was in charge of bringing the world down to scale”
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“If God meant for us to carry baggage around, he would have made our skin have little pouches like kangaroos. Or maybe he would have just made it so that each and every one of us were born with huge- ass shoulders to carry the load. Clearly, we weren’t made to carry the weight of the world, kinda makes you wonder why we do it anyway, huh?”
― Toxic
― Toxic
“It's not monsters we're afraid of. Monsters were only a comforting fantasy. We know what our kind is capable of. What we're frightened of is ourselves.”
― The Straw Men
― The Straw Men
“For the guys in the ring, it was different. They did it for the money, but not only for that. They did it because that's what they did. They weren't looking for a way out. They were looking for a way in, a road back to some place they sensed inside themselves.”
― The Straw Men
― The Straw Men
“We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces”
― The Importance of Being Earnest
― The Importance of Being Earnest
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