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“It seems to Kevin that, at the age of fifty-three, not only does he often not know what he wants, but in the rare moments, such as this, when he does, when his goal is perfectly lucid and ought to be within reach, he can’t seem to fucking attain it anyway. He has no control.”

“nuclear family can be uniquely nuclear.”

“Kevin worries about Gerard -his general lack of ambition given the cutthroat state of the world, especially when there are so many pubs to frequent”

“Mysteries and magic don’t happen to old people unless they’re losing their minds.”

“You have to draw a little line over the last 3 in 0.333 to tell people that the threes never stop. The little line is like a sign that says, ‘This number is crazy.’”

“‘I’ve yet to see the auld woman believes in witches, nor the young one, neither. It’s men think there must be I’ll-wishes and magic in women, when it’s only the natural way of the creatures.’
‘I begin to see why you’ve never married,’ I said.”

“You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you. If you are impolite, they will despise you, and rightly, because you have not acted like a lady.”

“In spite of these arduous duties, servants were, I think, actively happy, mainly because they knew they were appreciated as experts, doing expert work.”

“I had built up false picture in me mind and sat before them. I had never had the courage to demand the truth. Had I made one step forward out of my own shyness Maxim would have told me these things four months, five months ago.”

“It seems that it had always fallen upon the women to be the head or the heart, to throw the first spear, to shoot the first arrow, to clear the first path, to live the first life. It was a thing that took much energy and that was why they needed so much rest now.”

“especially if they had for you a kind of affection, not exactly as you had hoped but as they were able, with pure heart, to give.”

“But truth called attention to itself in wha that were usually detrimental to the teller.”

“‘I choosy with who pain I feel,’ Sarah said. ‘Some people pain is eternal. Some people worship they pain. Don’t know who they are without it.’”

“For men, privacy was the most frightening thing in the world because what was the point of doing anything that couldn’t be revered? What difference did it make to stand on a pedestal when there was no one there to look up?”

“But she was just the first, and her sacrifice, one of them anyway, was this: she made it so that there would be more grace waiting for them when they too, made the descent.”

“Amos could see in the slump of his shoulders that the boy whom he had once lifted up was now pressed under the weight of Amos pushing him down. And no matter how necessary, Amos felt a little broken himself for this.”

“It was hard to blame a tied for smelling TV e way it did. Best to just make the most of it and let it fertilize the soil so something could grow. There was never any guarantee, however, that there would be anything worth harvesting.”

“Crowded, he thought, and wondered if, perhaps, the abundance was to much; if the weight of holding on was too heavy, and the night, being as tired as it was, might one day let go, and all the stars would come tumbling down, leaving only the darkness to stretch across everything.”

“Because there are no innocents. Innocence, we have discovered, is the most serious atrocity of all. It is what separates the living from the dead.”

“When you say you’re going to work, as a writer, what you mean is your about to crawl into your fucking nerves.”

“Love, we are reminded, yet again, is not about staring into each other’s eyes; love is about staring out together in the same direction, even if the gaze has me an e or badness underlaid.”

“I began to get the sense that life is not much more than an inch or two deep, really - how you display the surface can dictate all else.”

“art is about ideas. And ideas are wilder than memories.”

“There’s not context, just the illusion that you’re showing a snapshot of a life, but life isn’t snapshots, it’s fluid. So photos are like fictions. I loved that about them. Everyone thinks photography is truth, but it’s just a very convincing lie.”

“Henry wonders, as they wait in the queue, if some people have natural style, or if they simply have the discipline to curate themselves every day.”

"But I hope you'll spend more time and energy supporting whatever you're in favor of than opposing whatever you're against."

“Just thinking of the scope of this problem can be dizzying. But it does not need to be paralyzing.”

“Right now, though, she stands, as small here as she’s always known herself to be. Small and unneeded and here for a minute. She breathes deep.”

“Harley understood. It was what people wanted. To know after a thing like that you’d either overcome or succumbed. You’d moved on or were more broken than they’d ever be. If you didn’t persevere, you could be evil or crazy, either or both worked fine, so long as you were something outside what they knew.”