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he found it hard to process: sometimes the pain was distant, like it was happening to somebody else, and he seemed aloof to Faye; at others, it was overwhelming and it left his whole body shaking, as if all of his nerves had been exposed.
“launched into a dramatic description of the terrible twos, the tiresome threes, the filthy fours, and the fearsome fives, barely taking a breath before piling into the angsty adolescents, the pimply pubescents, and especially, especially, oh lord, the troubled teens, noting always that boys were harder than girls, or girls were harder than boys,”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“the exciting sensations of the race are as transient as the blissful sensations of victory.”
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
“writers are terrified of offending other writers because better than anyone else they know that a sensitive mind armed with a pen is like a child equipped with an Uzi.)”
― The Jealousy Man
― The Jealousy Man
“no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away – until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.”
― Reaper Man
― Reaper Man
“if an architect ever designed a car park the sight of which lifted the heart, civilisation’s job would be done.”
― Real Tigers
― Real Tigers
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