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My whole family sort of freezes; perhaps because we’re British and we only ever talk around our feelings?
“The city isn't good and the city isn't happy and the city is sick," he says--"but you are good and I thank you for that.”
― The Artificial Silk Girl
― The Artificial Silk Girl
“And it was then that I knew what it means to be lucky--lucky to have met a person during those three minutes of the day that he's good. Because I have a lot of time on my hands--you can imagine that that adds up. there are 24 hours in a day, and half of that is night. That leaves you with 12. And that's 12 times 60 minutes, that is, 720 minutes minus three minutes of goodness still leaves you with 717 minutes worth of nasty ordinary person.”
― The Artificial Silk Girl
― The Artificial Silk Girl
“Yes, there are stars," I lie and I give them to him--there are no stars--but there must be some behind the clouds and they must be shining inside-out tonight. I love stars, but I hardly ever notice them. I guess when you're blind, you realize how much you forget to see.”
― The Artificial Silk Girl
― The Artificial Silk Girl
“Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do all the time? 'Course not. It's just the same. We're middle-class and we're British. Repression is in our veins.”
― The Radleys
― The Radleys
“They have courses teaching you foreign languages and ballroom dancing and etiquette and cooking. But there are no classes to learn how to be by yourself in a furnished room with chipped dishes, or how to be alone in general without any words of concern or familiar sounds.”
― The Artificial Silk Girl
― The Artificial Silk Girl
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