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The Irishmen look out blithely at the faces that pass by in a blur of the seven distractions—love, grief, pain, sentimentality, avarice, lust, want-of-death.
“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
“She has two children, so she probably likes sex.”
― Strange Sally Diamond
― Strange Sally Diamond
“In truth the way matters little; the will to arrive suffices.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus
― The Myth of Sisyphus
“There are times I think that none of this matters. Why put myself in danger with this book of the night? But I have to because if I write it, then it was real; if I write it, maybe we won’t just be part of a dream contained in a planet, inside a universe hidden in the imagination of someone who lives in the mouth of God. Each of these words contains my pulse. My blood. My breath.”
― The Unworthy
― The Unworthy
“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
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