Joe Meno

“People are just greedy animals, after all.”

— Joe Meno

“...the city is just too big and too full of people to be alone.”

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Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

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An act of evil is the death of wonder

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The world of evil is only as evil as we allow it to be.

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“How’s life?” “That’s the stupidest question I’ve ever heard.”

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“Slow as your own dubious grace.”

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What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

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When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

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The city glitters past us with its sharp edges, reminding us of how tiny, how weak, how totally unimportant we are.

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“Please let there be a heaven for everything that is too pitiful to believe.”

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“I don’t think I’m special. I want you to know that,” Odile says sharply. “I don’t think I’m better than everybody else.”

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“Maybe. Because he’s got to try. Because she is too interesting, too beautiful not to even do anything.”

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The longer human beings exist, it seems, the less likely we are to choose to be brave.

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Our worlds are so momentary. We are along all our lives and then go off that way as well.

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“Without death, there is hardly any threat strong enough to truly appreciate human life. He thinks: I am as good as dead--too…

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“It will happen soon. Someday you will find yourself surrounded by people with the exact same interests as you, and you will…

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It is what we see when we imagine what the afterlife must be like: our happiest triumphs, our most sincere moments, stolen…

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“Perhaps Effie Mumford was only trying to prove something she already knew: that, like all animals, she was at the whim of…

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“The only thing all men have in common with one another is their inherent capacity to make mistakes. But there is wonder…

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“C. On that cloudless Saturday morning, Madeline wakes up and sees Jonathan lying beside her, then decides that she’s probably going to…

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“I figured Alan wasn’t really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid,…

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Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels…

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The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media.…

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“Listen, I’m going to give you some advice, not because I think you need it, but because I feel like I’ve earned…

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“Kristin nods, marching ahead of Clark, who gazes as the impossible smallness of Kristin’s ankles and feet. Years later, while imprisoned for…

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“It is no parlor trick: There is a skull and, in the dark, it is glowing. Somehow it is now floating above…

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“What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? What lasts? And so he stares for an hour or so at all her…

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“...and realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives…

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“...a book is actually a place, a place where we, as adults, still have the chance to engage in active imagining, translating…

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“What Mr. Albee most desires is for the Model UN, the entire group of them, all eleven, even the scoundrel Quinn, to…

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“His face almost looked the way it did when he was a teenager, when there was the subtle expression of both confidence…

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“In our town—our town of shadows, our town of mystery—it seems our buildings have, without reason, begun to disappear completely. Still full…

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“Apples are kissing other apples. Gray cats are kissing other gray cats. Trees are kissing trees. You and I are not kissing.…

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“The more you like a girl, the less she likes you. It’s like fucking scientific.” “What about you and Kim?” “That’s what…

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“An apple could make you laugh: You are so charming. On our lunch, we find our way along the crowded boulevard. You…

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“Attention, God the Judge, God the Father, who Art in Heaven, give me one miracle, please. If You exist as I know…

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“-Are you ready to return to the outside world, Billy? -No, definitely not, sir. -Well, you can't stay here forever now, can…

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“I'm still trying to figure things out too. All I know is a couple of very unimportant things.”

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Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this.

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