The Colony
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returned the kitchen chair to the slate slab and sat down, uncertain of what to do next, of how to wait in a place where nothing happens a place without need of happenings
“The world was over, so why not dance?”
― Leave the World Behind
― Leave the World Behind
“It’s like there are these words, they’re out there in the world, and you start wondering what it would be like to say them. Words have their own power—they create the feeling, just by the fact of your saying them.”
― Crossroads
― Crossroads
“Home was just where you were, in the end. It was just the place where you found yourself.”
― Leave the World Behind
― Leave the World Behind
“Humans were monsters but also perfect creations.”
― Leave the World Behind
― Leave the World Behind
“It’s the right thing to do.” Clay knew this would work; his wife felt it important, not to do the moral thing, necessarily, but to be the kind of person who would. Morality was vanity, in the end.”
― Leave the World Behind
― Leave the World Behind
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