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21 " Bad things are happening. It seems best to sleep until they stop. "
― Catriona Ward , The Last House on Needless Street
22 " I judge people two ways--on how they treat animals, and on what they like to eat. If their favorite food is some kind of salad, they are definitely a bad person. Anything with cheese, they are probably OK. "
23 " That’s enough for now. Feelings are very tiring. "
24 " We eat. "
25 " Whenever I come close to the picture I feel the empty tug of their souls. "
26 " I come into the kitchen and see her. In a way, it is all I have seen, ever since. The sight is inside my eyelids. My mother is floating in air, swaying gently. She is a dreadful pendulum. "
27 " She likes to read, but you never know what books are going to do to you, and she can't afford to be taken off guard. "
28 " How many times can someone bend before they break for ever? You have to take care, dealing with broken things; sometimes they give way, and break others in their turn. "
29 " Kittens don't come back from the woods. "
30 " I wanted a friend to look after us. The weird thing is, now that I have one, all I want to do is look after him. "
31 " That’s why I drink, I say to myself, to control time and space. "
32 " Nell'aria c'è un forte odore di disinfettante, un'imitazione artificiale di un prato in fiore. Nel futuro, suppongo, a un certo punto non rimarrà quasi più nessuno a conoscere il profumo di un autentico prato in fiore. Forse di prati simili non ne esisteranno più, i fiori dovranno essere prodotti in laboratorio e chiaramente li architetteranno in modo che odorino di disinfettante, credendo che sia quello l'odore giusto… "
33 " I ate a pickle and now I feel a lot better "
34 " If there's anything better than a cat on the bed, I don't know about it. "
35 " A relationship is a very delicate business. You have to work at it every day. "
36 " People who have lived together for many generations share a special kind of madness. "
37 " The mind is clever. It knows how to tell you something that you can accept, when life gets too hard. "
38 " Truth has weight. It leaves footprints in your mind. "
39 " It theorizes that each living thing and object, each stone and blade of grass, has a soul, and all these souls together form a single consciousness. Every single thing is a living, component part of a breathing, sentient universe. "