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'You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends had been evasive about it, at the time.'

'He doesn’t mind this, I thought. He doesn’t mind it at all. Maybe he even likes it. We are not each other’s, anymore. Instead, I am his.'

'Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.'

after a year's break, this isn't as bad as I remember

"‘What’s a catastrophe?’ asked Sniff.

‘It’s something as bad as it can possibly be,’ said Moomintroll. ‘Like earthquakes, and tidal waves, and volcanoes. And tornadoes. And plagues.’

‘In other words – “fuss”,’ said the Hemulen. ‘One never has any peace.’"

"‘The garnets,’ Sniff moaned. ‘I didn’t get a single one.’

Snufkin sat down beside him and said kindly: ‘I know. But that’s how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don’t have to carry a suitcase.’"

"‘I can work anywhere,’ said the Muskrat. ‘It’s all a matter of thinking. I sit and think about how unnecessary everything is.’"

'Every asylum in this nation is filled with poor souls who simply cannot stand lanolin, cellophane, plastic, television, and subdivisions.'

'"I have been rocketing about the business district for a week now. Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today’s employer is seeking.”

“No luck, huh?”'

'for I mingle w/ my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle w/ no one.'

'It was a famous old hotel called the Overlook.'

'He had thought she was putting on an editor's hat — maybe even trying on a collaborator's chapeau...'

Finally

Damn, you guys are dumb