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Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.


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If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.



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You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.



Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.



The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.

The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.



The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.

The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn't stop each other on the street to say I love you.



His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.

His voice was handsome and broken, like a cobblestone street.




Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.



When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.

When we eat factory-farmed meat we live, literally, on tortured flesh. Increasingly, that tortured flesh is becoming our own.



It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.

It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us...on the inside, looking out.





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