"There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so."

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“Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.”

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“If you don't have the right things, you improvise. the wrong things become necessary. Then the necessary things turn out to be the only right things, simply because they're what you have.”

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“You go out for a walk and the world opens up for you. And before you’ve even stretched your legs properly, it closes shut. For here to there it’s all just the farty sputter of lantern. And they call that having lived. It’s not worth the bother of putting on your shoes.”

“Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you're so impossibly close is unbearable.”

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