“If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn't have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“For years, my mother must have hated Deirdre; for years she must have wished her dead. And now that Deirdre was dead, my mother looked no different than she had when she thought Deirdre was alive - not guilty, nor… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“Can a story be good only if it produces an effect? If the effect is a bad one, but intended, has the story done… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“They [my eyes] immediately started to tear up, tears being your eyes' way of forbidding you to look away,of forcing you to look at… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I think, that love endures, but that it isn't everything, and it isn't ever what we want it to be...” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“When he did that, I didn't hate him anymore, I really didn't, and maybe this is why people do so many hateful things to… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“They looked at each other for a while their gazes steady, unblinking. It was the way people stare at each other not when they're… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“When I was a boy, I would read those postcards and know exactly why my father was doing what he was doing: he was… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“When we say we know something in our bones, we mean we don't know yet how we know what we know. This is what… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“After a dream like that, you're grateful that it was just a dream, that no matter how bad your actual life, it couldn't be… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I could hear the exasperation in her voice, so beautiful and familiar, but sad, too, like hearing church bells right before your funeral.” — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“I had what, I wanted, it was with me, in the room, including the room itself. Was it possible that we hear that voice… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
“In truth I was very pleased with myself and with my story and all that had happened in it. Because you can't help being… — Brock Clarke Copy Share Image
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