January 2012
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September 2011
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August 2011
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July 2011
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“All I wanted to do was write, to make something, something wonderfully fake, a...”
– How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher pg. 48
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“I was trying to write someone back to life—that’s not an easy thing...”
– How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher, pg. 46
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“I don’t own everything about the night, but I do remember one story...”
– How To Keep Your Volkswagen Alive by Christopher Boucher pg. 41
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June 2011
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“I would rub her back and her arms and her legs and her feet. My hands could rub...”
– Us by Michael Kimball, pg. 91
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“We unplugged all the clocks and anything that had a clock on it. We used our...”
– Us by Michael Kimball, pg. 90
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“I whispered things into her ears so that she would remember how to talk and...”
– Us by Michael Kimball, pgs. 58-59
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“I told her that we had seen each other in our sleep and that she had told me to...”
– Us by Michael Kimball, pg. 50
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“I didn’t want to lose my wife. I wanted to see my wife lying down in a...”
– Us by Michael Kimball, pg. 16
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“I picked the telephone up to call for somebody to come help me get my wife up. I...”
– Us by Michael Kimball, pg. 12
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“I have seen people dying of the longing to give something back, but they...”
– The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God by Michael Ventura, pgs. 158-159
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“For if all things are possible, then the world man has made, the possibilities...”
– The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God by Michael Ventura, pg. 51
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“Elizabeth? Did we once look at each other that way, yes, we did, just that way,...”
– The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God by Michael Ventura
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“Let the children play in the shade of mercy.”
– The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God by Michael Ventura, pg. 43
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“He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he...”
– The Zoo Where You’re Fed to God by Michael Ventura pg. 9
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April 2011
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March 2011
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“What business has innocence here? What relation to the innumerable spirits of...”
– Three Novels: Molloy, Malone, The Unnamable by Samuel Beckett, pg. 6
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“In San Diego in April a thunderstorm is a gift - as if your soul might be wetted...”
– The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, pg. 245
You won’t really understand this unless you’ve lived in San Diego, which I have. Growing up in the Northeast was an experience; I learned to drive in blizzards and rain storms. When I moved to San Diego, I was in love with the sun and...
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“You see it is important to understand how damaged people don’t always know...”
– The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, pg. 198-99
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“I don’t need anyone to explain to me why people join gangs or develop...”
– The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, pg. 193
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“I didn’t know yet how many times a person can be born.”
– The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavich, pg. 161
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“I’m trying to think how to tell you how four weeks can be years. It...”
– The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, pg. 129
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“Ample make this bed.
Make this bed with awe;
In it wait till judgment break...”
– “Ample Make This Bed” by Emily Dickinson
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“I didn’t know yet how wanting to die could be a bloodsong in your body...”
– The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, pg. 72
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“You will see you have an underlying tone and plot to your life underneath the...”
– The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, pg. 33
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“I thought about starting this book with my childhood, the beginning of my life....”
– The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch, pg. 28
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