Stefan Merrill Block Quotes

#1. Maybe there was relief to be found in the prospect of having no choice.

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#2. Mama only snorted. A terse, ironic half laugh, the kind of angry chortle that powered Mama through her daily drudgery, as if it were the exhaust from an internal engine that runs on pure sass.

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#3. There weren't words for it. It was like trying to photograph a sunset or telling the story of a dream dreamt, a private intensity, and attempts at its reproduction could only be met with a shrug.

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#4. No one seems to be trying hard enough to do anything... What if we made them all chronically dissatisfied?

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#5. Could there be anything more sad and more lonely than remembering what terrible things the future will bring?

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#6. Frederick knows better than to believe, as his wife sometimes claims to, that all things happen for a reason. Things happen; it is up to us to invent for them a purpose.

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#7. To remember nothing," they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

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#8. But the actual object, that bundle of papers, is a telltale heart. She buried it long ago, and still it thumps its maddening beat.

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#9. ...that the basic transaction of life itself was a sad, endless amalgam of public endurance and private indulgence.

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