Chevengur
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But he had never made anything for himself—neither a family, nor a dwelling. In summer he simply lived out in nature, keeping his tools in a sack and using the sack as a pillow—more for the tools’ safety than for softness.
“All stories are recycled and all stories are unfair. Many get luck, and many get misery. Many are born to homes with books, many grow up in the swamps of war. In the end, all becomes dust. All stories conclude with a fade to black.”
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
― The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
“Perhaps ghosts didn’t haunt places. Perhaps ghosts haunted people.”
― Haze
― Haze
“The living are dangerous. They inflict pain. They're so fueled by greed, a lust for useless material shit, a smoldering desire to fit in ... and they'll hurt and betray and destroy whomever they must in order to get anywhere close to all of it. None of them are any different.”
― Dead Inside
― Dead Inside
“We have to keep fighting. When witches don’t fight, we burn.”
― Livingston Girls
― Livingston Girls
“She finally regained her voice when they removed her lips and scooped out her eyes,”
― Human-Shaped Fiends
― Human-Shaped Fiends
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