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The Lamb
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One On my fourth birthday, I plucked six severed fingers from the shower drain.
“A character in the book is asked what the greatest wonder in the world is. And he answers … He says, The greatest wonder is that every day, all around us, people die, but we act as if it couldn’t happen to us.”
― I See You've Called in Dead
― I See You've Called in Dead
“This is it, the thing we’ve been waiting for. It’s right here right now in front of us. Do it now. Whatever it is, do that thing that honors life.”
― I See You've Called in Dead
― I See You've Called in Dead
“Are we ever fully honest with someone else? I don’t mean to suggest outright lies, but do we really express those quieter, deeper feelings? Those amorphous, hazy things, core things that even we struggle to admit to ourselves. Do we share everything?”
― I See You've Called in Dead
― I See You've Called in Dead
“In truth the way matters little; the will to arrive suffices.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“Life prevails. How strange and wondrous. In the midst of death, life prevails, calls to us, begs us, says, Come, please, don’t you dare waste this precious gift.”
― I See You've Called in Dead
― I See You've Called in Dead
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