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“So I found myself telling my own stories. It was strange: as I did it I realised how much we get shaped by our stories. It's like the stories of our lives make us the people we are. If someone had ...”
“This is the greatest mystery of the human mind--the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irrelevancies relate, dissonance becomes harmony, and nonsense wears a crown of meaning. But the cla...”
“It was the world-without-adults daydream. In my dream I'd never quite figured out where the adults went but we kids were free to roam, to help ourselves to anything we wanted. We'd pick up a Merc f...”
“The Bible just said Thou shalt not kill, then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.”
“You know, Rolf said, you read stories when you're little, and you think it would be so amazing to have adventures happen to you. Then you actually go on one, and find out that it's awful. Nothing b...”
“Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.”
“101 Reasons why its great to be a woman:We have an excuse to justify an inordinate indulgence in bitchiness: It's clearly feminine intuition.”
“Love is neither a sadist nor a masochist, but a woman seeking the approval of her lover.”
“A typical Celestine will devote a large proportion of their time to passing through the inscribed sectors of the planet studying the writings, either alone or accompanied by companions with whom to...”
“I refuse to believe that gods want to make mortals unhappy and torment them. That's what humans do. And humans are very definitely not divine.”
“I can't describe the feeling when I go down it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries...”
“...he called me whore, slut, bitchall the beautiful ugly words that secretly thrilled me.”
“But it was my parents I longed for mostly. I wanted to be a little girl again and cuddle into them, wriggling in between them like I'd done in their bed when I was three or four, snug and warm in t...”
“Her immediate impulse was one of self-preservation. She was tied up in this somehow, she didnt know why or how, but there was something waiting for her on the other side of this crowd.”
“Even the Dead Hunger for Life.”
“Look, daddy, Mel gave me a pet! The boy said excitedly. Hes called Incy.Hunter looked down and inhaled sharply at the sight of a large spider in Adams little hand. His eyes snapped up to Mel, who w...”
“How I define patriotism, a knife, a riffle and some hand-gernades.”
“Everyone can have their heart broken. Even if you know the relationship isn't working, it's still sad. Even in a bad relationship, they're part of your life for a long time, and saying goodbye to t...”
“When you have kids and get older, it goes beyond flowers and chocolate. It's about waking up with a baby, letting her sleep in, and making a coffee for her when she wakes up. To me, being romantic ...”
“But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.”
