Wells Tower Quotes

#1. With two hours until her mother picked her up, Janey was alone, woozy and heart-swollen in the downtown, wandering wet streets that gleamed as you would have them gleam in the sweet summer film of your life.

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#2. If you were an animal, what would you be?" I wrote, "A bumblebee trying to fuck a marble.

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#3. He'd tell me love was like the chicken pox, a thing to get through early because it could really kill you in your later years.

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#4. I was just kind of tripping out on what getting shot is all about. How it's just you getting touched by a little thing, only it's touching you really fast.

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#5. With fiction, there's no reason why everything you write shouldn't be amazing. Nobody's stopping you from making up better stuff.

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#6. She was molten in my bed, but she also suffered depressions that were very dear to her.

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#7. Retreat"
"I can't explain why I did these things, except to say that I carry a little imp inside me whose ambrosia is my brother's wrath.

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#8. At times such as these, you get a good, humble feeling, like the gods made this place, this moment, first and concocted you as an afterthought just to be there to enjoy it.

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#9. Much time and money has gone into computer chess programs, and so far, no one's figured out how to crack the game, which I think speaks to chess's complexity.

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#10. Down Through the Valley"
"When Jane left me for Barry Kramer, it was a heavy kind of hurt, but by the time she took up with him, there wasn't a whole lot left for us. For quite a while, we'd been nothing but an argument looking for different ways to happen.

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