Peter Swanson Quotes

#1. any life at all is probably more than any of us deserves.

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#2. I was born with a different kind of morality. The morality of an animal - of a crow or a fox or an owl - and not of a normal human being. I

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#3. It was a beautiful spring night, the air rain-washed and smelling of crushed blossoms, and Henry felt as if the muscles of his body were singing in unison.

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#4. he spent most days in a haze of disinterest.

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#5. Be Mindful of Death" (Memento Mori)

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#6. I dreamed of my other family, the imaginary one with boring parents,

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#7. I tried to sleep, falling into a doze as thin as tissue paper,

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#8. Or was she one of those rarities, a human who didn't need other humans in her life?

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#9. I imagine she acted the way she thought you wanted to see her.

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#10. And to take another life was, in many ways, the greatest expression of what it meant to be alive.

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#11. to go to bed, and that's when I saw him there,

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#12. Everyone dies, but not everyone has to see someone they love with another person. She struck the first blow.

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#13. Truthfully, I don't think murder is necessarily as bad as people make it out to be. Everyone dies. What difference does it make if a few bad apples get pushed along a little sooner than God intended? And your wife, for example, seems like the kind worth killing.

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#14. I know, right. I keep thinking

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#15. Everyone has a full life, even if it ends soon. All lives are complete experiences.

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#16. No, the ache in my chest was that I felt alone. That there were no other humans in the world who knew what I knew. I

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