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Shark Heart
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In their innocence, they failed to grasp the labor of losing a partner, how the tasks of simple existence would become logistical feats and one person’s burden.
“Writing is the closest thing we have to real magic”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
“The great man say that life is pain,” Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. “That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit’ it. Now, if that ain’t the blues, I don’t know what is.”
― The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
― The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey
“The thing was not to get to know any of them, if possible. Once you know your neighbours, you are no longer free, you are all tangled up, you have to stop and speak when you are out and you never feel safe when you are in.”
― Crewe Train
― Crewe Train
“I was a boy, which meant I was a murderer of my childhood.”
― Time Is a Mother
― Time Is a Mother
“What use is any man if he doesn’t have a purpose?”
― Rage the Night
― Rage the Night
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