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I wish I had looked longer, but I don’t blame myself. You never know where the trapdoors are in your life, do you?
“Aren’t you sick and tired of being sick and tired?”
“A brave man helps. A coward just gives presents.”
“Uh-oh, pack your bags, we’re going on a guilt trip,”
‘These are the chains I wore in life.’ ”
“Something about presents. You said a brave man helps but a coward gives presents.”
“Like ten pounds of shit in a nine-pound bag. Is
The names change but the bullshit never does.”
Men on their own can sometimes start thinking bad thoughts.
“Time is the water, Charlie. Life is just the bridge it flows under.”
It’s hard when a good dog gets old. And when they get to the end of it…” He shook his head. “It tears your heart out.”
Maybe she’s just a dog, but she has her dignity.
“The humor of young people is crude and rarely funny,”
All alcohol smells the same to me, of sadness and loss.
you’re only as sick as your secrets.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
But wishes are like beauty—vain things.
Do you know what magic does, Charlie?” I thought it did all sorts of things—allowing hapless pilgrims such as myself to visit other worlds, for instance—but I shook my head. “It gives people hope, and hope is dangerous. Wouldn’t you say?”
“There’s pain in that word, wouldn’t you agree? Such pain in every almost.”
She ran but was caught, all her struggles went for naught.
Killing is a tiring and dispiriting job. The wait to see if one will live or die is even more tiring and dispiriting.
magic is hard to destroy.
