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21 " we at the paper are small fries. "
― Hugh Howey , The Shell Collector
22 " you think you know what you want, but once you have it, the hole you thought it would fill is that much bigger. The want is what exists, not the thing we lust after. "
23 " Life has a way of being both more surreal and more predictable than readers can tolerate. "
24 " being in my mom’s skin, feeling what she’d felt those years before. It was the sudden realization that my dying granny, who had been distant and alien to me, was my mom’s mom. "
25 " Shelling is like relationships,” Ness says. He turns away from me and scans the beach, makes an adjustment with the wheel. “I can see that.” He nods to himself. “Yeah, I can totally see that. "