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"“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It’s like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.”" — Apr 15, 2026 06:12PM
"“Sometimes you never feel meaner than the moment you stop being mean. It’s like how turning on a light makes you realize how dark the room had gotten. And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to.”" — Apr 15, 2026 06:12PM
“Your heart launches itself against your rib cage like an animal.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
“She laid the side of her face against his frail old heart, where the pink shell of her ear could capture whatever song it had left.”
― Prodigal Summer
― Prodigal Summer
“Don’t you miss it, any of it?'
…
'I couldn’t say.' She thought about it. 'Not cars or electric lights, not movies. Books I can get if I ask. But walking around in a library, putting my hands on books I never knew about, that I miss. Any thing else, I don’t know.”
― Prodigal Summer
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'I couldn’t say.' She thought about it. 'Not cars or electric lights, not movies. Books I can get if I ask. But walking around in a library, putting my hands on books I never knew about, that I miss. Any thing else, I don’t know.”
― Prodigal Summer
“I suppose it is possible that one day we will meet again and it will feel as if nothing ever happened between us.”
― Bluets
― Bluets
“No, Novikovs time traveler is the tragic dupe who realizes too late her |trip to the past is what sealed the very fate she’d meant to prevent. Maybe you mistook your future voice shouting through the walls for something else: a heartbeat pacing and then rapid with want, a purr.”
― In the Dream House
― In the Dream House
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