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The specialists studied medicine, he thinks, but when their job is to examine the lots at breeding centers, no one calls them doctors.
“I don’t get why a person’s smile is considered attractive. When someone smiles, they’re showing their skeleton.”
Because hatred gives one strength to go on; it maintains the fragile structure, it weaves the threads together so that emptiness doesn’t take over everything.
Parents who name their children after themselves are stripping them of an identity, reminding them who they belong to.
“The human being is the cause of all evil in this world. We are our own virus.”
Our existence would be an exasperating shade of gray if we were all flawless.”
“Everyone says that he fell because he flew too close to the sun,” his father said, “but he flew, do you see what I mean, Son? He was able to fly. It doesn’t matter if you fall, if you were a bird for even just a few seconds.”
