Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
("We Need to Talk About Kevin")
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No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.
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Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.
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You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
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For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul.
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