“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
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“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”
“I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things.”
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“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”
“I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the o...”
“She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.”
“It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.”
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“There's nothing wrong with not understanding yourself.”
“I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time... ...why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future.”
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“If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?”
“...people with nothing to declare carry the most.”
“Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!”
“Anyway. I’m not allowed to watch TV, although I am allowed to rent documentaries that are approved for me, and I can read anything I want. My favorite book is A Brief History of Time, even t...”
“Grandfather informs me that is not possible.”
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“I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.”
“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?”
“I could not believe in a God that would challenge faith like this.”
“(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.) (You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are...”
“Because sometimes people who seem good end up being not as good as you might have hoped.”