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Identity Quote by Max Porter

“It is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.” quote by Max Porter — Download Open image

““It is everything. It is the fabric of selfhood, and beautifully chaotic. It shares mathematical characteristics with many natural forms.””

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“She was beaten to death, I once told some boys at a party. Oh shit mate, they said. I lie about how you died,…

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“I missed her so much that I wanted to build a hundred-foot memorial to her with my bare hands. I wanted to see her sitting in a vast stone chair in Hyde Park, enjoying her view. Everybody passing could comprehend how much I miss her. How physical my missing is. I miss her so much it is a vast golden…

“...we were different boys, we were brave new boys without a Mum. So when he told us what happened I don't know what my brother was thinking but I was thinking this: Where are the fire engines? Where is the noise and clamour of an event like this? Where are the strangers going out of their way to help, screaming,…

“We will never fight again, our lovely, quick, template-ready arguments. Our delicate cross-stitch of bickers.”

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“The bell rang again. I climbed down the carpeted stairs into the chilly hallway and opened the front door. There were no streetlights, bins or paving stones. No shape or light, no form at all, just a stench. There was a crack and a whoosh and I was smacked back, winded, onto the doorstep. The hallway was pitch black and…

“But I care, deeply. I find humans dull except in grief. There are very few in health, disaster, famine, atrocity, splendour or normality that…

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“I felt it would be years before the knotted-string dream of other people’s performances of woe for my dead wife would thin enough for…

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“I plucked one feather from my hood and left it on his forehead, for, his, head. For a souvenir, for a warning, for a…

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“Ghosts do not haunt, they regress. Just as when you need to go to sleep you think of trees or lawns, you are taking…

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“Grief felt fourth-dimensional, abstract, faintly familiar. I was cold.”

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“So I walked into their room in the navy blue middle of the night in summertime and listened to them breathing.”

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