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John Manuel Arias
“But it was bad luck to eat bananas grown from human ashes. They said those hands of bananas would taste real.”
john manuel arias, Where There Was Fire

John Manuel Arias
“These microcosms of time carved out by uncontrollable laughter… transported them back to a room in which everyone was still together—where there was no such thing as absence. In this elusive, fleeting moment of ebullience, all the world was whole again. Laughter a time machine in which happiness could reconstruct the past, and the present couldn’t do anything about it.”
John Manuel Arias, Where There Was Fire

Justin Torres
“You walk around with this huge fucking neon sign above your head and this arrow pointing down at you, like those signs in front of motels that say rooms available, except your sign says something terrible happened to me, and you keep that sign all lit up like that above you, and you want people to ask, you want the whole fucking world to feel sorry for you, but no matter how much you tell it, no one’s ever going to understand, and it’s never going to be enough.”
Justin Torres, Blackouts

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