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I was born here but I’ve never gotten used to it; Helsingborg and I will never find peace. Maybe everyone feels that way about their hometown: the place we’re from never apologizes, never admits that it was wrong about us. It just sits
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“I don’t have hopes,” Mad explained, studying the address. “I have faith.” He looked at her in surprise. “Well, that’s a funny word to hear coming from you.” “How come?” “Because,” he said, “well, you know. Religion is based on faith.” “But you realize,” she said carefully, as if not to embarrass him further, “that faith isn’t based on religion. Right?”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“When it came to equality, 1952 was a real disappointment.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“what were my impressions upon viewing for the first time the manor where you’d had me brought? My initial thought was “Toad Hall.” This was, of course, an inadequate comparison but the best I could muster considering the limited number of books I’d read that centered on soaring Gothic structures. (As a boy, I went nine pages into The Hunchback of Notre Dame before realizing it wasn’t a football story.)”
― Murder Your Employer
― Murder Your Employer
“Refuse to allow the bad thing to define you. Fight it.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
“she, like so many other women, assumed that downgrading someone of her own sex would somehow lift her in the estimation of her male superiors.”
― Lessons in Chemistry
― Lessons in Chemistry
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