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“Like the best songs, you can't see the next line coming, but once it's sung, how else could it have gone?”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“The best way to work with dementia is to act as if the person you knew is still inside the wreckage. If you're wrong, and the person you know is gone, then no damage is done but the standards of care stay high; if you're right, and the person you knew is still bricked up inside, then you are the lifeline.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“On an impulse he cannot explain, he buys himself a one-way ticket - and the evening of that very same day finds him wandering the streets of the old colonial quarter of the Colombian town. Girls in love with boys on scooters, screeching birds, tropical flowers on winding vines, saudade, and solitude, One Hundred Years of it; and then, as the tropical dusk darkens the corners of the Plaza de la Adana, he sees a woman, her fingers toying with a necklace of lapis lazuli, and they stand still as the world eddies about them.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“I play chess on my iPhone, and indulge in a fond fantasy that my opponent isn't a mind of digital code but Dad: It's Dad's attacks I repel; Dad's defenses I dismantle; Dad's king scurrying around the board to prolong the inevitable.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
“In order to have sex, women need to feel loved; but in order for men to feel loved, we need to have sex.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
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