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People are icebergs, with just a bit you can see and loads you can’t.
“The world’s default mode is basic indifference. It’d like to care, but it’s just got too much on at the moment.”
I’d love to know a hundred things. When a parent dies, a filing cabinet full of all the fascinating stuff also ceases to exist.
marriage can, should, and must evolve. Don’t be alarmed, and don’t resent it. Be patient and kind, unflaggingly.
Life’s more science-fictiony by the day. It’s not just that you get old and your kids leave; it’s that the world zooms away and leaves you hankering for whatever decade you felt most comfy in.”
Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.
“Dracula can be safely awoken only when the stake’s already in his heart.”
There’s a link between bigotry and bad spelling. I’ve met it before.”
Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.
“It’s just once you’re a parent, a sort of … accident detector switches on, and never switches off.
Crunchie, a semiwild tomcat I named after a long-ago chocolate bar, strolls across the kitchen windowsill.
Civilization’s like the economy, or Tinkerbell: If people stop believing it’s real, it dies.
