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1 " I made it worse. I lay there for months and months, obsessing over all the places I’d never go, and I gradually realized that many of the ones I most wanted to see were places I’d never heard of. That was when I began seeing my countries.” “How "
― Timothy Hallinan , King Maybe (Junior Bender, #5)
2 " See, what happens in life, you try this and that, and if you're lucky, you find something that pleases you, that satisfies you, makes you feel good about yourself. If you're not lucky, you find things that hurt less than the other things do. So either way, what you do, you use that information to build a sort of house out of your life, does that make sense? As long as you stay inside those walls, in that floor plan, chances are you won't get creamed." He stretched out an arm, index finger extended, and indicated the rectangle of the room we were in. "Same rooms over and over again, but they're safe. You're trapped, but you're safe. And, of course, the joke is that you have to get as old as I am to understand that I could have walked through those walls anytime. That I should have. Into someplace small and quiet. Someplace I could get my arms around. "
