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“I thought maybe you'd wish for friends because you don't have any. We'll all be glad to see you die. No one's going to miss you, Gary. Maybe I'll walk behind you and spit on your brains after they blow them all over the road. Maybe I'll do that. Maybe we all will." - Garraty (to Barkovitch), The Long Walk”
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“People frequently comment on the emptiness in one night stands, but emptiness here has always been just another word for darkness. Blind encounters writing sonnets no one can ever read. Desire and pain cmmunicated in the vague language of sex.”
― House of Leaves
― House of Leaves
“More Weight. Giles Corey”
― Arthur Miller's The Crucible
― Arthur Miller's The Crucible
“Just a glance at the ragged mess around her fingernails communicated more than the lenghiest essays on the nature of distress.”
― One Rainy Day in May
― One Rainy Day in May
“They had no hope of anything more, no comprehension that there might be anything more. In a sense they were an autonomous body, functioning within a society which was organized to grind them down. The law did not protect them; for them it was merely an instrument of harassment, a means of moving them on when it was against their interest to move, or detaining them where it was to their disadvantage to stay.”
― The Getaway
― The Getaway
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