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“he couldn’t help but be hopeful that the house served as a metaphor for his own life—it was broken now, but one room at a time, it would be resurrected into something livable, bearable. It would never be as it had once been, but maybe, despite it all, it could be patched together again.”
― Ania Ahlborn, The Bird Eater

“Steve sighed, wishing for a cigarette. “The Buddha teaches respect for all life.” “Oh.” She considered this. “Are you a Buddhist?” “No. I’m an asshole. But I keep trying.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“As illustrated in any number of footnotes, men are almost always 50 to 60 percent dumber in matters involving their crotch.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char

“That’s the risk in working to be a dangerous person,” she said. “There’s always the chance you’ll run into someone who’s better at it than you.”
― Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char