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21 " It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story. "
― Tom Spanbauer , In the City of Shy Hunters
22 " Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is. "
23 " Weird here is something we aspire to, something we perfect, get degrees in, get awards for. "
24 " Why else do we live, except to be loved and remembered by those we love? "
25 " All this family shit! Harry said. How can you reinvent your life if the original versions won't leave you alone? "
26 " We're all just in our bodies for a moment in our life. Such a brave and lovely act it is to let the body celebrate. "
27 " For the most part, I'd say if you crossed a cat with a smart dog, made him a matriarchal vegetarian, gave him sleek beauty, a mass of muscle, and the desire to run, then what you'd have is a horse. "
28 " The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it. "
29 " Some people like to bitch, Rose said. Bitching is OK. But for me, I choose a kind of joy -- a lucid compulsion -- a polemical kind of fuck-you-motherfucker joy. "
30 " LA is the me city, Ruby said, and New York is the you city. In LA it's fuck me. In New York it's fuck you. "
31 " All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. "
32 " They're from France, Ruby said, Vogue magazine. They only speak French except for fuck you. "
33 " At our table in the corner by the window, huddled around a flame in a red glass, all of us, body to body to body to body. The touch that proves you're not alone, that someone else is there. "
34 " There's hundreds of corners on this island, Crystal said. And there are thousands of us. Exiles from the heartland without a heart. Out of the old country, a brand-new tribe, dancing to new tunes around a bucket of fire in a vacant lot. "
35 " Things start where you don’t know and end up where you know. When you know is when you ask, How did this start? "
36 " The Shy Hunter is terrified that others will destroy the truth within his heart, Rose said, And so the Shy Hunter armours himself ... thus armoured, he watches and waits and studies the world meticulously, hunting the world for prey ... Prey not in the sense of devouring or murder, Rose said, But prey in the sense of hunting for sore truths within another human heart. "
37 " So I'm smoking in the house, Mother said. And Bobbie's got a dog in her room. And your son Will's got an Injun in his. So there it is, Mother said. Like it or lump it! "