Slade House
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Read between February 24 - March 1, 2021
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Mum says I have to learn how to Blend In more, but there aren’t any classes for Blending In, not even on the town library notice board.
Melly
"Blend In" is capitalized. Hmm. The character has Autism ? ( After reading the entire book I can see that it is an Anthology so it's not relevant)
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Lady Grayer insisted you come along, so…you have to act normal. Can you do that? Please? Think of the most normal boy in your class, and do what he’d do.” Acting Normal’s like Blending In.
Melly
Does he have Autism? ( Looking back at this note this does not seem relevant)
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falls down a deep well with no bottom, and I forget what I’ve forgotten.
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woke up and it was all a dream” at the end of a story. She says it violates the deal between reader and writer, that it’s a cop-out, it’s the Boy Who Cried Wolf. But every single morning we really do wake up and it really was all a dream.
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“The Kraken wakes.”
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“Coffee’s the elixir of life,
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“Dreams do that. Mix reality with moonshine.
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She didn’t tell me to use a condom, so I didn’t: a bit of a risk, but it’s her risk, not mine, and any successful businessman’ll tell you, risk transfer is the name of the game.
Melly
Really ?!?!
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I don’t love her, not yet, but love grows out of sex, in my experience. The more you get into a woman, the more you get into her. Who knows? We could end up getting married.
Melly
The logic ? Lol
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Now it’s quiet like the morning after the end of the world.
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“A mystery house that only blinks into existence one night every nine years. God, I’ve got a hard-on as big as Berkshire. Drink up!”
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“Open-mindedness is a wonderful thing,” says Angelica. “Try it sometime.” Fern lights another cigarette. “If you’re too open-minded, your brain falls out.”
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People are masks, with masks under those masks, and masks under those, and down you go.
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Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable hemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.
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Death’s life’s only guarantee,
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