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“They say if you want something bad enough you’ll end up making a god out of it. But what if all I ever wanted was my life, Ma?”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“There was probably a scientific explanation for it, but the older she got, the more she was inclined to give in to the feeling that these moments were glimpses into a world greater than this physical one. It was as if there were cycles that repeated themselves over and over, but most people never saw the repetition; they were too deeply enmeshed in their own path to see.”
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
― Last Night at the Telegraph Club
“I am a quite unnecessarily complicated piece of mechanism”
― Goodbye to Berlin
― Goodbye to Berlin
“He could do that. Change himself to fit the person, like water taking shape off whatever vessel it was poured into. He could be all these things at once.”
― The Girls
― The Girls
“It used to be a joke between us, that in everything I swing between extremes and he lives his entire life on the middle setting.”
― Sorrow and Bliss
― Sorrow and Bliss
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