The Fireman
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In the hospital, the infected were divided into two groups: “symptomatic normals” and “smolderers.” Smolderers smoked on and off, always ready to ignite. Smoke curled from their hair, from their nostrils, and their eyes streamed with water.
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“Most of the time, I feel like a perpetual smudge. My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”
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“I hate when people question my ability to get from one place to another without mutilating myself. It's tantamount to saying, "Try to get home without screwing it up like last time, dummy," or "Farewell, for I may never see you again, given the mortality that awaits us all like a crouching panther.”
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“You give her all your french fries, even when she won't give you back onion rings,' Sophie says. 'And when you say her name it sounds different.'
How?'
Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.”
― Vanishing Acts
How?'
Sophie thinks. 'Like it's covered with blankets.”
― Vanishing Acts
“... a full moon shimmered over central Louisiana. This was no rinky-dink moon. This was a moon you had to curtsy to. A big, heavy, mysterious, beautiful, bossy moon. The kind you want to serve things to on a silver platter.”
― Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
― Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
“As she brought prospective buyers through, the realtor said it was an oil stain, but it was me, seeping out of the bag.”
― The Lovely Bones
― The Lovely Bones
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