“I‘ve been in enough bar fights to know you don‘t tangle with crazy.”
“Something in my chest has slackened. Old scar tissue, hardened and petrified. I‘m not sure if that means it‘s bleeding or healing.”
“In the space between her words I hear everything she isn‘t saying. The curse of knowing someone‘s rhythms. Of being able to intuit her meaning, rather than her words.”
pickThree short stories. The title story is, by far, one of the most disturbing stories I have ever read. Upon finishing, I sat for quite some time staring off into the distance, processing what I had just read. An excellent story.
The Enchantment was lackluster in comparison.
You‘ll Find It‘s Like That All Over was an absolute delight.
Overall, highly recommended. One of my favorites that I‘ve ever read.
“You know how people are. So eager to disguise their pain. So willing to maintain social graces and remain polite even in the face of discomfort.”
“Beliefs are like bugs on flypaper. You know what I‘m saying? They‘re hard to shake off.”
“I once read somewhere that if your mind continuously returns to the same person over and over again, it means that they‘re thinking of you as well.”
“We‘re just a bunch of adults who don‘t know anything about birds.”
“Enjoying a moment is a victory. I think we need to hold on to those.”
“You never know when a time is the last time, because if you did you could never go on with life.”
“Perhaps that was why, in his estimation, true intelligence was accepting how limited one‘s intelligence always is.”
“I had always thought that I would make a beautiful corpse. I would take care not to be ugly when it happened, take care not to become an ugly murder victim, lying there with my mouth open in a dress I had inherited, as much a failure in death as in life. I harbored an internal mechanism that bathed everything in a glittering light, the mechanism that binds death with beauty and beauty with death.”
“Relationships aren‘t scientific, they‘re not mathematical. They‘re chaotic, abstract, irrational.”
“He wasn‘t what I was looking for, he was someone I found on the way. And sometimes that‘s enough. You find someone going the same direction as you are and it‘s all the connection you need when the world has turned as much as it had.”
“‘Well, I hope so,‘ she said, wishing she had something stronger than hope on hand, knowing better than to look too hard for whatever that stronger thing might be.”
“‘Events happen in more than two dimensions,‘ he says. ‘You have to imagine how they look from different sides, otherwise you don‘t see them at all.‘”
“I wanted to go ask her: Is everything OK? But you never know with people. And then I seen her throwing things in the ocean and I said, Oh, I don‘t want to know, you know? I went back inside, it‘s not my business.”
“When you live alone, no matter how lovingly you decorate your space, you come to rely on the things that serve you best. *This* coffee cup, *that* spoon, this rustic beige bowl that‘s a little heavier than the others.”
“Maybe we‘ll all have to get used to the uncertainty. Maybe that‘s what frightens me. The way you can get used to anything if you‘ve got nothing better to gravitate toward.”
“When I say this is a love story, I mean this is a story about someone who believed in something impossible and beautiful and dangerous with such strength of character and devotion that they followed the thread of it all the way to the very end, no matter what the world threw at them.
“Whichever way you try to tell it, that sounds like a love story to me.”
“It's pretty rare to meet someone who's comfortable just sitting quietly with you before you get to know each other better. Sometimes quiet people are trying to let you know they don't actually want to talk to you, but this wasn't that. It was easy.”
“But I'm a professional. I don't care if I feel like an idiot. It's kind of an item of faith with me that my feelings aren't important when I'm working.”
“Having someone else to take care of forces you to be less selfish.”
“My sense of humor has been described as dry by some, cruel by others. I prefer to think of it as an acquired taste, similar to the olive at the bottom of a martini. You either like it or you don‘t.”
“I‘d brought the book with me to the bar, as per my usual — and pulled it out of my bag.”
“This was why emotions were bullshit. You couldn‘t let them have control of you. You had to stuff them deep inside, and leave them there, sealed.”
“I can tell she‘s not holding back to seem more interesting, it‘s because all her secrets hurt so much that letting them out will be like dying, just a little bit.
“She wants to know if I‘m worth all of those tiny deaths.”
“Damnable English language - more words than anybody can be expected to keep track of, and then they use the same one for about three different things.”
“His voice had that light veneer of humor that we all get, because if we don‘t pretend we‘re laughing, we might have to admit just how broken we are.”
“People get hung up on happiness and joy, but fun will take you at least as far and it‘s generally cheaper to obtain.”
“It‘s a story about love, I‘d written to her, but it‘s not a love story. It‘s about how you think love can save you and yet it never, ever does.”
“It‘s cold and poor and if you don‘t die from falling in a hole or starving to death, a wolf eats you.” p.6
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Never read a cozy mystery before, but here we go!
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so-soKept me interested for the most part but overall felt very superficial. Wouldn‘t NOT recommended it though 🤷🏻♀️
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all the black covers. Looking forward to starting What Moves the Dead !
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