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The Laughter
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He was dressed in the manner of a boy whose parents held great store by impressions and had worn their child down long ago.
“My neighbors’ distress didn’t surprise me. This was New Jersey, after all, home to the insecure and impressionable. Jersey was a land of lacking, the slow-footed little sibling to Manhattan: always never enough. My neighbors were tame, small-hearted gentrifiers who cared deeply about property value.”
― The Atmospherians
― The Atmospherians
“Your pain won’t impress anyone. The people your pain does impress aren’t worth impressing.”
― The Atmospherians
― The Atmospherians
“She does not cry for me,” he says, his voice hardening. “She cries for her lost youth, her missed opportunities and her limited options. She does not cry for me, she cries for herself.”
― My Sister, the Serial Killer
― My Sister, the Serial Killer
“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”
― My Sister, the Serial Killer
― My Sister, the Serial Killer
“Blake crooned cartoonishly to mock the top 40 hits on the radio. He considered these musicians beneath him, sellouts, but his envy was so obvious to me, and I felt closer to him - and distracted from my dread - by seeing into the feelings he’d never admit to.”
― The Atmospherians
― The Atmospherians
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