“I’m surprised Bel hasn’t seen it. The whole of the Way of the Mongrel is a kind of con. The tough don’t-fuck-with-me shell is what the world sees, and then you let the world imagine that it’s overcompensation for deep insecurities. But!” she said. “The but is very important.” “My butt is important,” Stills said.”
― The Quantum Magician
― The Quantum Magician
“He loved the flaws; they were invariably the most interesting parts of people's faces and bodies, the parts that held the straightest lines, the most beautiful shadows. Wounds and deformities and cracks and boils and stomachs: this was the stuff that moved Engales. Usually while he detailed the broken nose or sketched a lumpy body he felt as if he was zeroing in on what it meant to be alive. He could hear his father saying: The scratches are what makes a life.”
― Tuesday Nights in 1980
― Tuesday Nights in 1980
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