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To do something stupid, all you need is the opportunity. To do something good, all you need is a reason.

No one ever said life was going to be easy. Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.

It was so beautiful and ominous at the same time

A simple truth, repeated as often as it is ignored, is that if you tell a child it can do absolutely anything, or that it can’t do anything at all, you will in all likelihood be proven right.

We become what we are told we are.

What the hell is life, apart from moments

Kronor a basic monetary unit

Culture is as much about what we encourage as what we permit

The only time I'm not moving forward is when I'm taking aim.

You can't live in this town, you can only survive it

Never trust people who don't have something in their lives that they love beyond all reason.

If a town falls in the forest but no one hears it, does it matter at all?

Charlie Brown once said “there is nothing more upsetting than the clobbering of a cherished belief”

I like the reference of Roald Dahl

Mnemonic

Begat

1st two chapters were hard to get thru. I just received the second book and it had been over a year between books. The last chapter just leaves you...I understand because there is another book. Leaves you with questions. I feel I need to reread both books.

Self immolation…chiaroscuro… lampreys…desertification

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world. If a person can’t picture something happening in their mind, they think that it can’t actually happen in real life.

Tears are like blood in the water for sharks, spill a few and a predator will move in.

But keeping everything shut up tight inside you is dangerous.

A great cop. Well, I think, until he wasn’t

Sleeveless vest? Aren’t vest sleeveless?

But I’m so tired that I turn on a baseball game…lie down on the couch, and promptly fall asleep. The ball game ends up watching me

A lot of things going on

Cataclysmically

We’ve born into a world of flames, and you can spend you whole life trying to put the fires out. But you’ll just end up old and tired, and the flames will burn on long after you’re dead.

There are so many ways it can go wrong. So, why sprint into a buzzsaw?

You have all these people and incidents around revolving one person.

Gram had added softly, “but coincidence? It just doesn’t exist.”

Not realizing everyone is out to get you!

I’m almost done, and I don’t want it to end!

Words of interest: unerringly, macabre, wangle, recalcitrant, and ebullient.

There are lies of commission and lies of omission

Given up the dead

The lake of the dead changed to lake twilight