February 2012
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“A girl needs a gun these days on account
of all the resonant memories.”
– Steve Kistulentz, excerpt from A Small War Has Ended
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“She liked the wanting far more than the getting, and, of course, was the same...”
– Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
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“Every day is so full of tornadoes; I can’t see straight anymore.”
– Jonathan Carroll, Voice of Our Shadow
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“I’m punctuation in his sentence, the
period’s stop, the...”
– Moira Egan, excerpt from Bar Napkin Sonnet #16
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“When he held her while they made love, she would sometimes imagine scratching...”
– Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
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“I can’t tell you exactly what I’m looking for, but I’ll know it when it happens....”
– Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
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“On his last human day, he put his head in his hands and sighed and I stood up...”
– Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
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“When I said I wasn’t with another girl
the January after we fell in love for...”
– Jon Sands, A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You
Still kills me.
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“i have a bruise on my ass
about the size of an orange
it’s sore and welted...”
– Kendra Grant Malone, excerpt from Three Hundred Dollar Bruise
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“There is a character in The Green Dog’s Sorrow named Krang. Krang is a mad...”
– Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs
So with this recurring theme of books-within-a-book in The Land of Laughs… I wish Jonathan Carroll had written these stories instead of the main one. I’d love a story like this.
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“It had already happened before. Some nights she would get small and scared,...”
– Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs
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“Things will happen that I can’t imagine. I’ll change and grow into a future that...”
– Jo Walton, Among Others
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“I got drunk, and I suppose it was nice to have soft edges instead of hard ones,...”
– Jo Walton, Among Others
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“What I mean is, when I look at other people, other girls in school, and see what...”
– Jo Walton, Among Others
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“Libraries really are wonderful. They’re better than bookshops, even. I mean...”
– Jo Walton, Among Others
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“She made it easy to love her, but she never loved back.”
– Jonathan Carroll, Kissing the Beehive
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“I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.”
– Jo Walton, Among Others
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“To me comfort is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is...”
– “The End of the Affair” by Graham Greene (via gotflavorlikeicecream)
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“Reading a book, for me at least, is like traveling in someone else’s...”
– Jonathan Carroll, The Land of Laughs
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“If Ruby called a guy her boyfriend it meant she found him interesting enough to...”
– Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls
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“Two dark lenses between us, a rolled-up window, a hard right into the road. Then...”
– Nova Ren Suma, Imaginary Girls
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“Anyway, I got on the intercom and I said, “Charlie, I’m home! Charlie!” and I...”
– Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously… I’m Kidding
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“It’s easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want...”
– Jonathan Carroll, Kissing the Beehive
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“I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did. But...”
– Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up
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“I always loved you
better when you
were gone too”
– Kendra Grant Malone, excerpt from Nous Sommes Les Animaux Part Two (une plus poème pour vous, petit taureau)
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“When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and...”
– Ellen Degeneres, Seriously… I’m Kidding
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“I was teaching you the difference between I miss you
and you are missing from...”
– Summer Robinson, excerpt from there you go again drinking the lake of fire
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“When we sleep together, he holds me like he loves me. I’ve noticed this: when...”
– Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
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“Undoing your belt was the easy part.
What is this sounds like what children do....”
– Natasha Kessler, from Likes and Loves and Blahdee Blah
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“That the stars pull a wave toward
other coasts. That wolves are something
else...”
– Wendy Xu, Auditorium Poem
Dear Jonathan Carroll
Are you pulling quotes from my tumblr to put on your twitter? I’m sorta Nancy Drew-ing this all, but if it is you… say hi. I like you (as evidenced)!
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“once someone told me
they were tired of
managing me and my
emotions
one man...”
– Kendra Grant Malone, excerpt from quiet as death
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“I have come to realize this is an essential lesson: In order to survive, you...”
– Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
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“Before Hugh and I ever became intimate and I was wrestling with whether or not I...”
– Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
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“It’s the ripe fruit that gets eaten. I say the truth is
I don’t work at...”
– Catie Rosemurgy, excerpt from Miss Peach: The College Years
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“Everything tastes like love. That’s what
makes me nervous. That and I...”
– Catie Rosemurgy, excerpt from Miss Peach: The College Years
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“She said she meant
that friends are like magic tricks
but love is genuinely...”
– Catie Rosemurgy, excerpt from Doctor: Miss Peach Is a Doll inside a Doll inside a Doll
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“I would have given him everything. I would have pulled down planets to make our...”
– Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
greatest failure of the Twilight series
sonofapritch:
not getting Nicolas Cage to play the vampires
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“When does it end, Hugh? When will I be able to go around a corner of my life and...”
– Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks
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“I don’t believe in deities. I believe in moments
of shallow respiration,...”
– Marty Cain, excerpt from 48 Hours Before You Leave
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“This is when you think about the last lover you had and feel bad about yourself....”
– Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories
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“What do you do with your love for someone when they die? Or the memories...”
– Jonathan Carroll, The Marriage of Sticks