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“We were on our way to the twentieth floor, sharing the elevator with two suits that had men inside them.”

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Steve Toltz is an Australian novelist born in 1972. His works are known for their unique humor and profound emotional depth, which have won him a dedicated readership. more

“There are men put on this earth to make laws designed to break the spirits of men. There are those put here to have their spirits broken by those put here to break them. Then there are those who are here to break the laws that break the men who break the spirits of other men. I am one of those men. - Harry West”

Men Earth Law Spirit Break Broken West

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

“not fare well, but fare forward”

Wells

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.”

Ifs Regret Empty

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how everyone has a stump where something necessary was amputated.”

Looks Heart Teach Rain Window Stumps

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“Our kinship with Earth must be maintained; otherwise, we will find ourselves trapped in the center of our own paved-over souls with no way out.”

Way Soul Earth Environmental Trapped Kinship

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there’s room.”

People Ifs Faces Suffering Rooms Secret Bitterness

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.”

Sometimes Talking Relationship Piano Lifting Exhausting Not Talking Effortless

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“… she gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah’s Witness: uninvited and tireless.”

Looks Stills Memories Witness This Day Tenderness Jehovah Revulsion Uninvited

Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.”

Reading Books

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

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