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Open Water
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You enter a pub, and they direct you down the stairs, towards a bunker-like basement. ‘What are you drinking?’ you say. ‘We are drinking . . . rum and Coke?’ ‘Single or double,’ the woman behind the bar asks. ‘Double,’ she says. The
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"You" (2nd person voice) becomes "our" and "us" in this paragraph. On purpose or a mistake? Did this happen elsewhere in the book and I missed it?
“Any story could be a comedy or a tragedy, depending on where you ended it. That was the magic. How the same story could be told an infinite number of ways.”
― This Time Tomorrow
― This Time Tomorrow
“Outside, the sun was glowing, and the air was thick with gray clouds of exhaust, sounds of drilling, and ice cream trucks singing. There was a black dog licking a dripping fire hydrant and cherry tomatoes set out like little jewels. Magnolia was thrilled by all of it.”
― Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
― Magnolia Wu Unfolds It All
“That was what the world was like, things improved but they didn't get better.”
― One Good Turn
― One Good Turn
“What is a game?" Marx said. "It's tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. It's the possibility of infinite rebirth, infinite redemption. The idea that if you keep playing, you could win. No loss is permanent, because nothing is permanent, ever.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“In a fractured national moment of stress and pain, of inequality and injustice, of ethical strain and Moral Exhaustion, we should go easy on ourselves at moments when we fail in our quest to become better people. But we cannot forget this simple truth: we owe things to each other. They may be small things, or simple things, but they’re there, they’re important, and we can’t ignore them.”
― How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
― How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
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