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"We were living in the gaps of his obsessions."

Geoff's bumbling father Mr. Hale is such a wonderful character! Love him : )

We have lift off!!

"The man didn't seem like her mother's type. He was too...smiley. And he took up too much space, like a joyful grizzly bear."

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"Mama's stories were unsuited for the ears of children- stories of evil without consequence and pain without cease- the unholy things that happen when God blinks."

Been waiting to jump into this one for a minute now!!

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"How was she to believe man was anything special when he looked so much like any other animal in death? He was just another rained-on, ruined carcass, as if he had never kissed her, as if he had never danced."

This is fantastic so far!!

"What did it feel like to know you lived or died at the whim of the giants around you?"

Finally starting to get my footing. It took a minute!!

"Dying without finding out was better than living and having to wait for it."

"Quaking with fear, they said their prayers in the inky darkness."

Damn, Griselda's brains are straight scrambled eggs right now.....

Oh my, this is fun 😁

I'm pretty damn confused...

"He was a scream wrapped up in straw, a little, weak, vicious thing gnashing inside a monstrous facade."

"You like to play poker, but you're not much of a gambler, are you?"

"Not when the odds have teeth."

"Even now her mind skittered away from the memory; it was not a safe thing to think about. "

"...there was no sign of Rockefeller Center or Grand Central Station, just shattered structures rising up like rotten teeth from a diseased jaw..."




Such a visual description...

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

"There are few things sadder than eating alone at Chipotle at closing time."


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Oh Jesus Christ.....WHO CARES?!?!? Why won't this book end????????

This thing is kind of an underwhelming clunker...

"Speaking about what happened gives weight to the bad memories, making them feel raw and recent."

First story took a minute to get going, but was alright

"Crying won't fix anything. But it has a way of putting you back where you were before the trouble began."

I've been looking forward to the for a while now....

Here we go!! : )

the lamp goes out, sure as a shattered bulb, his left eye gone, the pain a strange electricity in the fat of his brain, though worse is the crisp, alien feel of air inside an open socket and the syrupy crawl of vitreous humor down his face, some of it dribbling into the hole Reis knocked through his cheek, all of which tells Bagger that this is how he dies, the eggshell obliteration of every single piece of his body

"...everything goes dark, like they have been stuffed into a giant's pocket..."