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Found it, it was in my car

Temporarily on hold: I can’t find where I put the book

“Then the girl made of wishes sobs against me for as long as this particular storm takes to pass.”

“The single bloody handprint on the back window reminds me that miracles these days are just the remains of other people’s nightmares”

“I smile at the gift, at being human. At loving something that can't die, gifted by someone who could.”

Hemingway uses a lot of “Then, this happened so on and so forth. Then, more happened and we did this and that”. Also one of the sentences on I forgot what page took up 3/4 of said page

"Who tells you to be quiet all the time?" Laurie's words are a low, thickened spill of warm honey. "Pain is meant to take up space or else we wouldn't know how to scream. Fuck making your agony silent to avoid disturbing others. Maybe they should be disturbed."

Dracula Daily!

"In the future, readers of newspapers and magazines will probably view news pictures more as illustrations than as reportage, since they will be well aware that they can no longer distinguish between a genuine image and one that has been manipulated.

“To say that he was a playwright is to offer an even harsher warning to the reader, for no one is a better liar than a man who has warped lives and passions onto something as grotesquely artificial as a stage.”

“We are who we pretend to be, so we must be careful about who we pretend to be.”

“Do not own the guilt. You didn’t cause it, and you are not responsible for it.”

“The dead have a right to privacy”

“They are designed to be robust, to hold us upright and to give us form, so it is logical that they should be the last sentinels of our mortal life to bear witness to the way we lived it.”

“So don’t feed the nightmares. Don’t let yourself panic. Don’t give the Capitol that. They’ve taken enough already.”