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Fantastic

he was serious ab the whisky omfg

"You are-" he began, and hesitated, and began agin.
"You are-" But he could not finish; he did not know what he wanted to say.
"But for a little while," Francine said, "you will be be here, for three or four days you will be young and soft."
"Yes," Andrews said.

john williams GLAZE. Andrews's naivety is written so well!!!

"Yes, you'll be back; but you won't be the same. You'll not be so young; you will become like the others."

Andrews looked at her confusedly, and in his confusion cried: "I will only become myself!"

She continued as if he had not interrupted. "The wind and sun will harden your face; your hands will no longer be soft."

Interesting page about sex work

"... in his mind were fragments of Miller's talk about the mountain country to which they were going, and those fragments glittered and turned and fell softly in accidental and strange patterns. Like the loose stained bits of glass in a kaleidoscope, they augmented themselves with their turning and found light from irrelevant and accidental sources."

"I would just nod at anything anybody said. Not that it did a damn bit of good."

even the epigraphs are awesome what the hell