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1 " As one of my favorite foul-mouthed lit professors used to say, “Man, that’s some fucked-up shit right there. "
― Paul Tremblay , Growing Things and Other Stories
2 " That’s the true power of story. That it can find the secrets both writer and reader didn’t know they had within themselves. "
3 " And, to be honest, my social anxiety was one of the reasons why I had decided to stop frequenting conventions and readings, with finances being another reason, and yet another, the notion that I could prevent the inexorable untethering from Dominick if I remained geographically fixed within the Hudson Valley at all times, like an old stone fence in a forgotten stretch of woods. "
4 " She’s doesn’t knock her temples over purposefully and is careful as she builds them taller and more complex. They collapse anyway. "
5 " You are as purposefully deaf as you are blind and have been so for so long that no one remembers it being any different. "
6 " Him and his early gray hair. "
7 " Were any other body parts missing? “No.” Isn’t it odd that animals didn’t take anything else? “Who knows why animals do anything they do? "
8 " We ask about each other’s day as if it were an actual object, something that could be held and presented. "
