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A book, too, can be a star, “explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly,” a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
“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
“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
“Family is not whose blood runs in your veins, it's who you'd spill it for.”
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
― Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone
“You have no idea at all yet what you can bear!”
― Longbourn
― Longbourn
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