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"Back in those days, white cow punches in Texas were called Cowhands and only colored ones were Cowboys; an insult to make them less then men, ya see."

It's surprising just how exhausting doing nothing can be.

"Getting back into reading feels like stepping inside the house of a beloved friend she hasn't seen for a long time."

I'm so sorry for your loss. Not that those words mean much do they? But it's hard to come up with an alternative, isn't it? I make my living out of words and I still haven't come up with anything better.

Gran calls photographs "paper ghosts". They're the only ghosts everyone can see.

Some things need to lie dormant until you are strong enough to face them.

Finally reaching the murder mystery plot! Lots of (too much?) world building and set up.

"It's the women with to-do lists that you have to watch out for"

Referenced Skeleton Crew! More King easter eggs please!

And now a Mr Delacroix and a Mr Torrence! Def a King fan and I DIG IT!

Giving Tommyknocker vibes

"She was an abyss that promised a person at its end."

"What was past was past. She had to fix the future."

"Her father was old when he had her, 42."
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Whose idea was it to make Companions of of malevolent carnivores? 😸

A poor sentence weakens a strong voice.

Books are not meant to remain in your mind but your heart.

If more people would read I think the world would be a better place.

Is monstrosity what it takes to progress civilization? Why else was mankind given this capacity for this unspeakable cruelty?

How much does it cost to heal a soul?

A shout out to Watership Down!!

"It's a privalege to understand someone, even an evil person."

"Do everything you must about a situation but do it now."

"That's the problem with people though, isn't it? They always thinks it's other people that's the problem." "If all your trying to do is change who's in control you don't really want to change anything. "

Maybe I'd never be normal, but maybe I could be happy.

I'd never know which parts of me were me, versus the traits I'd inherited and what the family I'd been born into had done to me. How it had bent and shaped me when I was young and malleable.

realize how difficult it is to articulate guilt. That it's rarely rooted in logic and maybe that's why the cut can slice so sharp and deep.

Why a person lies is always more interesting than the lie itself.

Booksellers are almost always the best variety of persons.

Racists are weak, they only have strength in numbers.