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“It didnt take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.”
“It didn’t take tragedy or war to derail a man. It took only a memory.”
“Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up.”
“Have you ever hoped for something? And held out for it against all the odds? Until everything you did was ridiculous? ”
“After a long while he sat upright with great effort, exhaled a sigh and reached for a clean sheet of lined paper, smoothing it out on the desk. He unscrewed the lid of his fountain pen, laid it per...”
“Sometimes Midas suspected that life was a film with subliminal messages. Things would move along with an acceptable degree of predictability, then be punctuated by some horrible childhood memory.”
“One day, I learned that a single look can change everything. And since then I have seen it countless times. I have grappled to understand it and failed. For instance, all it took was a look from an...”
“In a flash of anger, Midas grabbed a sod of earth and hurled it at the water, which broke into a hundred chained circles. Picturing Ida like the body in the bog made his heart seem to wilt and blow...”
