“…I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.”

—  Douglas Coupland, book Life After God

Source: Life After God (1994)

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