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If every man is guilty of all the good he did not do, as Voltaire suggested, then I have spent a lifetime convincing myself that I am innocent of all the bad. It has been a convenient way to endure decades of self-imposed exile from the
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I often feel that if I just ignore it, the bad things I’ve seen and done and felt and heard will go away. But they never do, do they? They just crawl under one’s skin and take up residence, resurfacing occasionally and ripping open holes that seem to be more painful than the times before.
“This works to spoil films too: the highest-profile actor with the fewest lines is always the villain, and a sudden wide-shot of a character crossing a road means they are about to be hit by a car. A good author must not only wrong-foot the reader within the narrative, they must do it within the form of the novel itself. There are clues baked into the very object.”
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“Wherever you are in this world, the sky is still above you. Wherever you are, God still watches over you; He sees into your heart.”
― Longbourn
― Longbourn
“Perhaps it was not an easy thing, to be so entirely happy. Perhaps it was actually quite a fearful state to live in--the knowledge that one had achieved a complete success.”
― Longbourn
― Longbourn
“Anger is as much an heirloom as any Rolex.”
― Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“Every basic task starts to feel like a decision, and that becomes so draining that you end up unable to make any of them.”
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
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