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“Every time Floyd took off from Earth he wondered if it would still be there when the time came to return...” (p. 38)

Now starting Part Two: T.M.A.-1

“We are responsible for experiences that we are not at fault all the time. This is part of life.” Chapter 5

“The trigger gave...and it was there...that it all started. I shook off the sweat and the sun. I realized that I’d destroyed the balance of the day and the perfect silence of this beach where I’d been happy...” (p. 60) end of Part 1

“Sa pagiging ama, mas naunawaan ko ang mga ina. Totoo ang mga nakakatuwang Facebook meme tungkol sa mga ilaw ng tahanan na kadalasan ay napupundi, pumuputok, nag-aapoy, at nagiging si Godzilla tatlong beses sa isang araw.” (pp. 208-209, Alipin)

“Turuan mo ang kapwa mong maging maalam. Dahil ang matalino, kung hindi magbabahagi ng kaalaman, ay wala ring pinagkaiba sa bobo.” (PAL, p. 65)

“It was a living sound, but not voices, not breath. A man of philosophical bent might have called it the sound of souls...” (482)

Part 4 - Snowbound

(So if you should see something . . . just look the other way and when you look back, it'll be gone. Are you diggin' me?) - Halloran (p. 134)

...The place has been filled to overflowing with life. It has itched and squirmed with life and now it is night and the life has all gone away. The silence is almost terrifying...One shudders at the thought of the meaninglessness of life while at the same instant, and if the town are his people, one loves life so intensely that tears come into the eyes. (Sophistication, pp 222-223)

...The place has been filled to overflowing with life. It has itched and squirmed with life and now it is night and the life has all gone away. The silence is almost terrifying...One shudders at the thought of the meaninglessness of life while at the same instant, and if the town are his people, one loves life so intensely that tears come into the eyes. (Sophistication, pp 222-223)

The sleep of reason breeds monsters. Goya | Part One: Prefatory Matters

“...He was lonely and had begun to think that loneliness was a part of his character, something that would always stay with him...” (p. 114) | The Thinker, concerning Seth Richmond

Hands

Hands

“The key is to support an individual without agreeing with them.” Validating Feelings

“The key is to support an individual without agreeing with them.” Validating Feelings

“And so under the Communist regime the charade of presenting one thing publicly and believing something else privately was enacted even by the children.” (p. 156)

“We sit on the floor and tell stories about things that happened, things that never happened and things that will happen when we all go to America.” (p. 404)

“Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it...You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace. (p. 259)

“When you have your father to yourself by the fire in the morning you don’t need Cuchulain or the Angel on the Seventh Step or anything. (p. 261)

“Oh, to think of it, Oh, to dream of it, fills my heart with tears...Oh, for one of those hours of gladness, gone, alas, like youth too soon.” Angela McCourt (p. 209)

The Angel on the Seventh Step.

“Phuc, do not cry,” Nu would say. “I cannot carry your pain, but when you cry, I carry your sorrow.” (p. 122)

“When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived it all.” (p. 1)

Fort Atkinson

Fort Atkinson

Fort Atkinson

“(1973) To Americans, Vietnam was not so much a country as a war. For them, it had finally ended...Whatever the morality of America’s involvement in that conflict, the American public was sick and tired of hearing about. That the war in Vietnam was not over...did not weigh heavily on its conscience...” (p. 112)