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The Eights
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When she said goodbye to her father last night, she felt like a sheet of paper folded in half and torn roughly along the crease. Two smaller versions of herself exist now, each with an edge that is undefined and feathery.
“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
“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
“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
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