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“The other half, Lost Tokyo-1, has not been located yet, although presumably it exists out there somewhere in the universe, a mega-demi-city of eighty-five million people, a city fractured, cracker in half, torn, ripped not cleanly, but shredded, ragged, ripped…

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“The apologies, the true sign—that this was not the man you once knew, a man who would never have uttered that word to his son, sorry, and in English, no less. Not because he thought himself infallible, but because of…

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“Probably it goes without saying, but time machine guys don't get a lot of action. Had a one night stand with something cute a…

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“Maybe I'd absorbed the capacity to hurt someone by listening to my parents every night, who were under the impression that turning the volume on the television all the way up somehow drowned out the voices, when the truth was and is (and my father, of all people, should have known this about the physical properties of materials, about what…

“A life is about twenty-five thousand days, and a finding occurs about once every twenty-five thousand days. In other news, once in a lifetime.”

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“We don't need the Good Life. The Pretty Good Life would be just fine.”

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For the past several years, I have gone to sleep every night in this same little pocket, the most uneventful piece of time I…

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Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving…

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“I hate everything about her except for the fact that I love everything about her.”

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“My thoughts, normally bunched together, wrapped in gauze, insistent, urgent, impatient, one moment to the next, living in what I now realize is, in essence, a constant, state or emergency (as if my evolutionary instincts of fight or flight have gone haywire, leading me to spend each morning, noon, and evening in a low-grade but absolutely never-ceasing muted form of…

“How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how many self-murders is it going…

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“I know none of this seems very believable. It probably doesn't even make sense. But for once in your life, please, I am asking…

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“My father makes to-do lists, makes plans, makes business plans. This is how he starts, always with a blank sheet of graph paper.”

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“It’s hard to have a relationship in this world. Other people are not the same from day to day. I might wake up next to a woman three days in a row, or three hundred, but I never know if she’ll be there the next morning, or the next hour, or if the world will change completely while I’m not…