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They could have spread out, but had chosen shoulder-to-shoulder instead. Sometimes there was comfort in discomfort,
Eddie did, finishing with the required They lived happily ever after, and the gunslinger nodded. “No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves, don’t we?” “Yeah,” Jake said.
But how you feel and how long you feel it doesn’t always have a lot to do with objective truth.
We spread the time as we can, but in the end the world takes it all back.”
Sometimes ’tis best to swing on the rope, even if it’s too dark to see if the hay’s there or not.”
He gazed up at her seriously from the dust of the dooryard. He knew that however much she might love him, he would always love her more. And as always when he thought these things, the premonition came that ka was not their friend, that it would end badly between them.
He had an idea shame was pretty much reserved for people who didn’t know what they were doing.
It didn’t occur to me until later that there’s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.”
There is a certain hardwiring in the human animal that makes us respond to strangers who call us by name. When the summoning call is affectionate, we seem almost compelled to respond in kind.
He had great faith in Oy. Or maybe it was love. Or maybe those things were the same.
“Because you make me feel whole,” she said. “When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood movie producers made up to sell more tickets back in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out.” Eddie laughed. “Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You . . . Eddie, you fill me up.”
“A coward judges all he sees by what he is,”
God grant me the SERENITY to accept what I cannot change, the TENACITY to change what I may, and the GOOD LUCK not to fuck up too often.
