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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.
“You have no idea at all yet what you can bear!”
― Longbourn
― Longbourn
“But I promised to be reliable, not competent”
― Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“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
“I'm sorry about before," I said. Seeing as we were shoulder to shoulder, I spoke outwards, lobbing my apology into the void of the mountain. It's the only way blokes know how to show humility, by pretending we're at a urinal.”
― Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
“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
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