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The Stand
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No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just … come out the other side. Or you don’t.
“I’m fine,” I said. “It was all a long time ago.” But Carmen didn’t give that lie even the courtesy of a nod. “When you lose your mama”
― Kin
― Kin
“It’s not vulgar like when you say someone is a motherfucker—letting everyone know you are angry”
― Kin
― Kin
“Henry believed that anyone paying attention to the world around them would inevitably become interested in the Romans—or at least in the fall of the Roman Empire. For who could doubt that we live in a time which resembles theirs? That we are the Romans”
― On the Calculation of Volume III
― On the Calculation of Volume III
“The world is governed by bloodthirsty politicians who use people as pawns”
― The Remembered Soldier
― The Remembered Soldier
“in a book you can turn the pages back”
― The Remembered Soldier
― The Remembered Soldier
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