Nickolas Butler Quotes

#1. I live here, I have chosen to live here, because life seems real to me here.

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#2. It was the first time in her life that she considered clothing as a method of camoflaging our scars, the traumas of our lives.

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#3. I do not relish leaving home, leaving my children, leaving the familiarity of my bed, my coffee maker, my slippers, but I do love hotels.

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#4. as I watched their approach I wondered whether the slow pace of a wedding march was for the benefit of a bride on her most beautiful day, or for the aging father preparing to give her away.

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#5. No, the safest thing is to become an island. To make your house a citadel against all the garbage and ugliness in the world. How else can you be sure of anything?

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#6. Sometimes that is what forgiveness is anyway, a deep sigh

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#7. Winter in Wisconsin is the ideal time to avoid someone because our garments grow ever larger, ever thicker, and we go about the frozen world insulated beneath knit caps and mittens, our feet clad in mukluks or boots.

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#8. The world, it seems, does not much care anymore if you are an Eagle Scout, or even a Tenderfoot. It's all about how many "followers" you have, the perfection of your spray-tanned abs; whether you had the genius to sell a start-up company that hasn't produced a single viable product.

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#9. In all my travels, only in the Midwest would someone spend their money in a place they hate simply because they feel bad for the proprietors. Also I suppose, because they know your name.

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#10. Corn might be the epidemic that kills us, but I've always loved staring at a big field of it, perfectly planted.

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#11. Nothing patronizing, nothing sexist--just a slightly outdated politeness, and the general regard it might suggest.

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#12. This is my home. This is the place that first believed in me. That still believes in me.

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#13. Here, I can hear things, the world throbs differently, silence thrums like a chord strummed eons ago, music in the aspen trees and in the firs and burr oaks and even in the fields of drying corn.

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#14. The way he loved was almost like a vise, a weight; at times she felt it verged on codependence--that his identity, his value system, all of it very much hinged on her.

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#15. Buttery nipples," I said, smiling broadly. "Buttery nipples.

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#16. Goddamn golf shirts and gym memberships and fake muscles and tans and cell phones and new cars. Trevor didn't care about any of that garbage. All he wanted was a garden. Isn't that funny?

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#17. When he talked politics, it was with me, or my sister, pointing a steady and patient finger at us, saying, "I don't care about left or right. It's all nonsense. All I ask of you is this: Be kind. Be decent. And don't be greedy.

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