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But even as he clung to Carol, even as he swore to himself he loved her, Caleb pursued a summer job in Chicago. Cities, he knew, were the place to meet other men like him. Even in his own mind he couldn’t bring himself to put it more
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Especially like the last sentence.
“Artie watched all these things, and he slowly understood that what he had felt the day of the election was true: His country was committing suicide.”
― The Things We Never Say
― The Things We Never Say
“As he walked slowly up to the bedroom, he thought that now, after all these years, he was finally becoming a grownup. What did he mean by that? That he was finally beginning to understand the multitudinous aspect of people.”
― The Things We Never Say
― The Things We Never Say
“his study of history, he had learned about the leaders, and the various groups involved, but he had somehow missed this fact about every single person: that they held within themselves a vast, unknowable universe.”
― The Things We Never Say
― The Things We Never Say
“It went through his mind faintly: I will not have the free will to prevent whatever is going to happen to me. And his memory of what seemed to him previously to have been a vigorous wonderment at the concept of free will made him smile just slightly now. He left his car and went inside. Going to my fate, he thought. Just going to my fate, that’s all I can do.”
― The Things We Never Say
― The Things We Never Say
“As Artie slowly recalled these memories, it came to him that it did not (really) matter to him that Ken supported the next president (except that it did). Mostly Artie was surprised. He felt the old sadness of what (he thought) was going to happen to the country. And he was surprised at how different people could be. Ken was the opposite of an evil person, and yet the country was headed in a terrible direction, Artie was certain of this. But Ken—and Artie shook his head slowly—was such a good and decent man.”
― The Things We Never Say
― The Things We Never Say
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