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81 " Some people need at least a thousand kilometers between them to stay happily married. But "
― Anthony Marra , The Tsar of Love and Techno
82 " But everything’s easier with a cat. He wants a little fish soup in a saucer and the occasional scratch on the head. I want the illusion that an animal bred to trade affection for food can understand the inquietudes of my soul. "
83 " They were building a life of small kindnesses together. Some days it was extraordinary. "
84 " But to some people ignorance is a sleeping mask they mistake for corrective lenses. "
85 " After working fourteen-hour shifts in the mines, inhaling so much nickel they sneezed silver glitter, none could have expected a private performance from the prima ballerina of the Kirov. "
86 " There are so many paths to contentment if you’re open to self-delusion. "
87 " The Lada's rear tires ejected dusty rooster tails, but the car wouldn't budge. I checked my phone. Zero bars. Anywhere beyond reach of MegaFon cell service is well beyond the sight of God. The roads had broken, disintegrated, and washed away the farther from Gronzy we'd come. Here, somewhere in the southern mountains, what we referred to as "road" was in fact "impending landslide". "