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[N]othing broke my heart like the slow death of a shared joke that had once seemed genuinely funny.

"He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings...You're the same, you know."

What family has no mariner in its tree? No fool, no felon. No fisherman.

"I'd like to give a big hello to those of our searchers who are watching this 'cast." Tegan's 'cast reminds me of the 80s film, The Legend of Billie Jean.

"I'd like to give a big hello to those of our searchers who are watching this 'cast." Tegan's 'cast reminds me of the 80s film, The Legend of Billie Jean, a personal favorite from childhood.

He longed to stoop his cheek and rub it against her scarf. He would have liked to stand there with her all night in the blackness.

The strange solitude about them was no stranger than the sweetness of being alone in it together.

I do not miss childhood, but I do miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I found joy in the things that made me happy.

"One could argue that much of the discussion and criticism seems to be an intellectual exercise--what Sedgewick termed 'the intelligentsia toying with madness at the end of a pen.'"

"'Disorders' in women, closely associated with reproduction, were believed to be capable if turning the metaphorical angel into a voracious, sexualized monster."