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The door isn’t exactly Fort Knox material anyway and caves like the Yankees against the Red Sox.
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“Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia”
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
― The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
“Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.”
― Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
― Matagorda/The First Fast Draw: Two Novels in One Volume
“The world is made of stuff and that stuff behaves in certain predictable ways; if you master the rules, you master the stuff.”
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
― Ingenious: A True Story of Invention, Automotive Daring, and the Race to Revive America
“Never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?”
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
― A Visit from the Goon Squad
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