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“Nazi, Nazi, Nazi. A Nazi is a person who chooses to NOT SEE anything that would keep them from being cruel...even if what they will NOT SEE is how their cruelty will destroy them!”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

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“Listen, said Beverly. Let me tell you something. There is no Very Friendly Animal Center. That cat is long gone.”
― Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale

tags: animal-shelters, loss, pets

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“Like I said, basements usually smell like surrealism. But kitchens and gardens almost always smell like impressionism.

Because our kitchen is part of a basement apartment, it smells like the early impressionism of Vincent Van Gogh - all big strokes of umber and ochre - a peppery greasy I-love-you smell.”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

tags: food, impressionism, metaphors

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“A dream is not reality but who's to say which is which?”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“People who have been loved by their mothers won't understand what I'm about to say —

There are secret unspoken words that flow from a mother to her child. It starts when the child is inside her. Because of the secret words, either the child will feel that the door of the world is closed to them or that they are welcomed.

For the child who isn't welcomed there is always the impulse to oblige the mother... and leave. This temptation whispers to them all their lives. It tips their better judgment off balance. It causes them to ignore their intuition, to dance at the edge of the chasm...”
― Emil Ferris, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1

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