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Even the beauty of the landscape was an abstraction, like the beauty of a man in an advertisement for a cologne you could not smell.
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What would Walt Whitman do?
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Charlie tried to focus on what she was saying, but his head felt packed with gauze. Like no one could reach him in here, where it hurt.
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William loathed his family,' Mercer said. 'With cause.
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The absence of a skyline makes him doubt he'll ever get where he's going, and behind him, where he's come from might as well not be there.
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But every impulse becomes unbearable sooner or later.
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Some people think the real them is whoever they are when they're not around other people.
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He wanted to flee in shame, to the kitchenette, to the next room, to the fire escapes and rooftops and the places where the city ended.
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You're hung up on something that's never going to love you back.
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Her eyes were glistening, but for some reason he couldn't reach out and touch her. It was like some gestures were so simple they were beyond him.
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It's like Charlie's dreamed everything he lived through here.
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Though what could anyone really say these days with one hundred percent certainty?
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Whatever he's feeling at a given moment is what he's always been and always will be feeling.
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That it may be the only thing the darkness makes clearer: who really matters is whoever you're most desperate to see.
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Amid them and amid the obdurate angels and the wildflowers pushing up through the earth, Richard could again be one among many.
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How to break this to him. How to let a thing be broken.
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But porca miseria, the things night can do to time. In place of hardwired sequence, it's more like everything all mixed up.
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One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why?
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The second this interminable wait ended, it would all start to fall away into the past, to become unreal.
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Truly unconditional love was suffocating, in that it took so little notice of who you actually were.
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He wanted his articles to be, not infinite exactly, but big enough to suggest infinitude.
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An actual artist, living right under her nose.
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There is no such thing as a perfect phrase, or a private language, and . . . time only runs the one way.
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Do you understand how rare it is to get a real chance to save someone?
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Reading it was like subletting a small apartment in someone else's head.
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And didn't time always slow, anyway, the closer you came to what you wanted?
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Despite which, Charlie seems doomed to stumble around in the dark, clutching pieces of a puzzle he still can't see.
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Even the kids, behind the slice of streetscape floating in the glass, had mastered the art of pretending not to see.
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He must have felt a disturbance just beyond the boundless world his eyes perceived. Maybe like dogs we know when we are being hunted.
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It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion.
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Mercer looked around. There was no way anyone could hear. But the walls could, and the earth, and the ghosts of horses, and the state of Georgia.
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There was this hot, yellowy stillness the air always got in the minutes before the last bell, as if it were stiffening itself to be shattered.
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Everything's always changing, Charlie. We become who we are. The mask melts into the face.
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No one, in the end, made it out of this life alive.
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Detonations crash in from nearby like walls she's a void at the center of.
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You remember that saying, 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life?' There's something awful about that saying.
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Actual artists are like mythological creatures,' she heard herself opine. 'You hear about them, but a sighting's pretty rare.
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When he lifted his head, the sun seemed impossibly close. Science-fictionally close.
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As if it were possible for one person to care about another and still treat him or her like this.
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And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doomed to die?
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I didn't drink, I told him, with that embarrassed feeling I got whenever I was reminded that I had a body, that I looked like anything at all.
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It was as if the birds were caught in the repetition of some primal trauma, stuck between what they had and what they wanted.
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And so she remained, like everything that mattered to me then, secret - to be pursued in the woods by moonlight, when I was supposed to be studying.
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As ever in the family Goodman, someone would have to swallow feelings here, and it was easier that it be Mercer.
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