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61 " Everyone always says, 'Don't you want to see the baby, don't you want to see the baby,' but if I did want to see a fat, bald, confused person, obviously I'd have only to look in the mirror. "
― Ben Marcus , New American Stories
62 " The sign red "Sky and Celery." Closer, it read "Ski and Cyclery. "
63 " Do. You. Ever. Feel. Guilty." He smiled."Doesn't everybody? "
64 " ...Lots of people have been touched by Jesus. But I have been touched by God. "
65 " The sun gets better at setting. "
66 " I am bleeding to death.It doesn't hurt at all. "
67 " Baby talk has tremendous potential, despite its obvious dangers and its near-total incomprehensibility. The only reason you don't embrace it is your abject terror. "
― Ben Marcus , Leaving the Sea: Stories
68 " There were stories in the territory, stories that could turn a sane man sour and a sour man worse. "
69 " ...these people who were supposed to be my family, who had conspired to look enough like me to serve as a critique of my appearance... "
70 " Mayflower Systems regularly bought and destroyed small companies, mostly to crush progress. And maybe also simply to frighten the universe and increase world sadness? "
― Ben Marcus , Notes from the Fog: Stories
71 " People are considered as areas that resist light, mistakes in the air, collision sweet spots. "
― Ben Marcus , Notable American Women
72 " In a perfect world the current laws would not apply. "
73 " Bird speech at the circle of willis results in migrant noises or 'puddles' that amass near the head of the pedestrian, rallying it toward a form of disruption within the flowing crowd. "
― Ben Marcus , The Age of Wire and String
74 " ..., and he told a story once after intercourse, to the person who had just politely hoisted him while he hyperventilated in their space until his error had been registered as a small dollop of fluid he extruded from his mistake zone, ... "
75 " When men cough or talk into their own hands, they are praying to their own bones, hoping to change their minds about something. "
76 " He had seemed daunting when I first saw him off the trail, hulking over the Jewish couple as if he might carve into their backs and eat them. Now "
― Ben Marcus , The Flame Alphabet
77 " The word 'camouflage' simply means 'to have a family'. "
78 " Before, during, or after intercourse (the only three possible descriptions of time). "
79 " Breathing itself was considered the first language. "
80 " In the evening I spray my eyes with plant milk before retiring; this lubricates my blinking apparatus during sleep, throwing more light into my dreams, though I'm not much of a believer in the imagination. "