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Take Me with You

by Steven Rowley (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 25, 2026 07:18PM

“Pam was a struggling artist who made everyone's life difficult. She only wore black and after becoming acquainted with her I couldn't decide if this was a deliberate fashion choice or whether it was physically impossible for any color to escape from the gravitational pull of her dark and bitter personality.”
― Bob Smith

tags: bitterness, black-clothing, humor

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“Would there be no end to publishing, he wondered? Perhaps it would be a good idea if everyone just stopped writing for a couple of years, and allowed readers to catch up.”
― John Boyne, A Ladder to the Sky

tags: insightful

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“What we, the audience, bring when we come to the theater - what we might be feeling that day. What might have happened to us. That is a big part of what a play is.”
― Richard Nelson, Sweet and Sad

tags: audiences, plays, theater

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“The one undeniable benefit of having spent some time in the closet is that it nurtures a talent that you can fall back on any time: lying convincingly. Sometimes I worried that queer kids in the twenty-first century coming out at twelve, or even younger, would never develop that valuable skill.”
― Bob Smith, Remembrance of Things I Forgot

tags: humor, lying, queer-youth

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“I think she’ll like me,” I said, concerned that my own mother wouldn’t like me. My fear exposed the unspoken shame of all families: if you didn’t know the people you were related to, would you befriend them? In the days when families hunted and gathered, this wouldn’t be a question worth pondering, but once butchering a mammoth stopped being a household chore, we began to suspect families are chain gangs held together by manacles of DNA.”
― Bob Smith, Remembrance of Things I Forgot: A Novel

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