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“Mischief and Misinformation Committees are racing each other to develop a computer virus that will make automated bank tellers sick enough to vomit storms of ten- and twenty-dollar bills.”

Such a great chapter and such a great way to write about ATMs!

"I am trash," Tyler said. "I am trash and shit and crazy to you and this whole fucking world," Tyler said to the union president. "You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility."

“The lye clinging in the exact shape of Tyler’s kiss is a bonfire or a branding iron or an atomic pile meltdown on my hand at the end of a long, long road I picture miles away from me.
Tyler tells me to come back and be with him.
My hand is leaving, tiny and on the horizon at the end of the road.”

Bro

Such a great chapter.

The acid burn kiss mark goes crazy

“A lot of young people don’t really know what they want… A lot of young people, they think they want the world… If you don’t know what you want… you end up with a lot you don’t”

“We have a sort of triangle thing going on here. I want Tyler. Tyler wants Marla. Marla wants me.”

Love an ACTUAL love triangle. This is how it should be

“Carnage or contribution. That’s what priests always say”

“The thing Lisbeth despised most in people… was their expectation that faith sound be painless. As if faith required no effort.”

Got me contemplating behind the till …
Should faith be painful? If we have a benevolent God, should faith be kind and effortless? As natural and easy as breathing? Or does worship and devotion require pain in order to seem real and worthwhile? Much to think about today

‘She gave a little puff of air through her nose, like something was getting snuffed out’

So heavy. I should not be reading this at work as it is definitely a mood destroyer

Neil I love you so much. I’m so sorry

Not the best thing to read on my lunch break. Had to stop cause I know what’s coming next and I cannot read that and then talk to customers 😭