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“Hearts can break. Yes. Hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear.”

“It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.”

“Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.”

“As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?”

“The darkness. Goddamn the darkness. It seemed to Garraty they had been buried alive in it. Immured in it. Dawn was a century away. Many of them would never see the dawn. Or the sun. They were buried six feet deep in the darkness. All they needed was the monotonous chanting of the priest, his voice muffled but not entirely obscured by the new-packed darkness, above which the mourners stood. The mourners were not even aware that they were here, they were alive, they were screaming and scratching and clawing at the coffin-lid darkness, the air was flaking and rusting away, the air was turning into poison gas, hope fading until hope itself was darkness, and above all of it the nodding chapel-bell voice of the priest and the impatient, shuffling feet of mourners anxious to be off into the warm May sunshine. Then, overmastering that, the sighing, shuffling chorus of the bugs and the beetles, squirming their way through the earth, come for the feast…I could go crazy, Garraty thought. I could go right the fuck off my rocker.”

“God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.”

“Do you drink?"
"Of course, I just said I was a writer.”

“People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.”

“No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.”

“And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend”

“and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.”

“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.”

“Come on, big guy. Let's go for a ride. Let's cruise.”

“God grant me to SERENITY to accept what I cannot change the TENACITY to change what I may and the GOOD LUCK not to f*** up too often”

“If you want to play, you gotta pay.”

“Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter.”

“In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.”

“A short story is a different thing altogether – a short story is like a quick kiss in the dark from a stranger.”