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A monster cannot become a man, but a man can become a monster, and perhaps that’s what makes humanity so frightening: You cannot tell, just by looking, who is monstrous, and who is not.
“The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock—shock is a worn-out word—but astonish.”
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“Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.”
― Fool's Errand
― Fool's Errand
“I feel myself retreating to someplace deep inside. It is a pitiful kind of childhood, to know that no one loves you or is taking care of you, to always be on the outside looking in. I feel a decade older than my years. I know too much; I have seen people at their worst, at their most desperate and selfish, and this knowledge makes me wary. So I am learning to pretend, to smile and nod, to display empathy I do not feel. I am learning to pass, to look like everyone else, even though I feel broken inside.”
― Orphan Train
― Orphan Train
“HE: History has no smell.
ME: Is that why we are nostalgic for it?
HE: Breathe in, breathe out. The past doesn’t stink like the present.”
― Gut Symmetries
ME: Is that why we are nostalgic for it?
HE: Breathe in, breathe out. The past doesn’t stink like the present.”
― Gut Symmetries
“Obscurity is Japan's outermost defense. The country doesn't want to be understood.”
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
― The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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