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“I thought about that, now worrying works, how it keeps the mess inside of us instead of out.”

“I’ve built something valuable here. But valuable things have a way of being misunderstood in their own time. Everyone wants a quick fix. We’re tired of being afraid, tired of being sad, tired of feeling overwhelmed, tired of feeling tired. We want the old days back, and we don’t even remember them, and we want to push into the future, paradoxically, at top speed.”

“…when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood and air never could, when you felt as if you’d been born for only one moment, and this, for whatever reason, was it.”

“When ailing seamen were shielded belowdecks from the adverse elements outside, they were said to be ‘under the weather’”

“Morris, for example, had done the taxes of half the members of the society, and knew Leonard had once deducted a connecting flight to Maui as a business expense, although the American Urological Association had met in Honolulu only. An impartial observer may wonder why Morris did not consider weaponizing such information, but said impartial observer has clearly not lived in a small town.

“She took on any client as long as they could pay; she was American.”

“The dead do not go away. The world teems with their spirits; a thousand angels on a blade of grass.”