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“In so many ways, his family's life feels like a string of accidents, unforeseen, unintended, one incident begetting another...They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end.”
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“Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.”
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“He was like a man who had grown frozen with horror once and had never come completely unthawed.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
“The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan
“There should be no crying in copyediting.”
― Carol Fisher Saller, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
― Carol Fisher Saller, The Subversive Copy Editor: Advice from Chicago
“Motherfuckers will read a book that’s one third elvish, but put two sentences in spanish and they [white people] think we’re taking over.”
― Junot Díaz
― Junot Díaz
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