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“The house is eerily quiet. All this time I thought silence would be a welcome reprieve, but it's less comforting than I imagined. The house feels so much bigger and colder than it ever has.”
“My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it.”
“Maybe Laney's right. Maybe June did love me. But I'm far less certain that she knew I loved her. Did she realise how much I needed her around? It's not like I ever told her. I was too wrapped up in...”
“The measure of a man comes down to moments, spread out like dots of pain on the canvas on life. Everything you were, everything you'll someday be, resides in the small, seemingly ordinary choices o...”
“I don't think those who die are any better than those who stay alive. They just look better. They can't mess anything up anymore.”
“Stopping in the 1970s, "Hybridity" as the fifth and final chapter is less of an end point than a certain realization of the artifice, plasticity, and technology that Wells and Loeb envisioned as th...”
“You're absolved," I tell him.He brings his eyes back up to mine. There's no fucking way he knows what that word means. That's a word I dream someone will say to me.So I put it in his language. "You...”
“I began to know my story then. Like everybody's, it was going to be the story of living in the absence of the dead. What is the thread that holds it all together? Grief, I thought for a while. And ...”
“And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable.”
“The fish will not blame you. You have to do this. I will not look at you and think you're a bad brother. Nobody will. You have to leave because this time you have to save yourself.”
“Her father kneels and unclasps the urn. Above the waves she falls graceful as snow, my sister, my Sonora.”
“I look at people who arent us and I hate them.”
“Even as she listened to murmurs of support, she heard the relief in other peoples voices, the immense gratitude that it wasnt their child who had died. She heard Im so sorry until she despised thos...”
“Creativity vs. inspiration: inspiration makes a copy, creativity makes something completely new.”
“Thats why I wanted to be a writer - because someone I loved told me I could be one.”
“The trip from Portland to New York City was like climbing Mount Everest without oxygen. It went on and on, and by the time you reached your destination, there was no sensation left in your extremit...”
“One day you look in the mirror and you see your parents' sadness in your eyes.”
“I lit a cigarette. 'Go ahead, take a smoke,' my father said. 'It won't kill you. Only sadness will.”
“You'll never know the kind of person you could be until you take that first step, all alone, into the great unknown. Very few take the step.”
“I want to board a train, and leave my books behind. I want to be so caught up in writing about the journey, that I forget that fiction & fact are not the same. The destination does not signify.”
