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“Whenever I get like this, all suffocated in my head, like, I remember a little card Theresa once made for the twins. 'We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.' It's a quote from some wan with a name like mayonnaise. I've spent a lot of time turning that line over in my head. At first I hated it, cos it means there's no reality, only what we feel. And that's a load of bollocks. But there's something to it, all the same. Like, life's indifferent. It's got enough joy and shite in it to mirror whatever you're bringing to the table, day in, day out..”

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“You were thinking about how suburbs are perfect cradles for dreaming: they practically beg you to imagine another life, one lived at a burning voltage. The dreaming hidden in this place — murmuring beneath the comfort of the uniform gardens in their perfect rows, the mowed lawns, each driveway that bit too small for the two large cars — you couldn't have become what you are if you hadn't always been from this.”

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