“Just being Tan-Tan, sometimes good, sometimes bad, mostly just getting by like everybody else.”
Section 4 (p. 326)
Midnight Robber (2000)
“People, you'll find, aren't usually all good or bad. Sometimes they're just a little bit good and a whole lot bad. And sometimes they're mostly good with a dash of bad. And most of us, well, we fall in the middle somewhere.”
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Gabrielle Zevin
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Elsewhere
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