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“I want to know myself, to test my edges and see where I stop and the rest of the world begins.”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”
― The Things They Carried
― The Things They Carried
“I realized with alarm that I hadn’t learned how to save anyone at all, not Dr. Sanders or Lazarus or Jimmy or Saul or Anna O., and that what I was thrilled about was learning how to save myself.”
― The House of God
― The House of God
“It’s a library, Daphne. If you can’t be a human here, where can you?”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
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