NOS4A2 Quotes.
1. "She breathed deeply of the scent of decaying fiction, disintegrating history, and forgotten verse, and she observed for the first time that a room full of books smelled like dessert: a sweet snack made of figs, vanilla, glue, and cleverness."
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Joe Hill, NOS4A2
2. "Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?"
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Joe Hill, NOS4A2
4. "I felt like it needed some color down there, so I painted the walls with the motherfucker."
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Joe Hill, NOS4A2
5. "She'd thought love had something to do with happiness, but it turned out they were not even vaguely related. Love was closer to a need, no different from the need to eat, to breathe."
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Joe Hill, NOS4A2
6. "The blood of a redheaded woman is three degrees cooler than the blood of a normal woman. This has been established by medical studies."
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Joe Hill, NOS4A2
7. "Gold don't come off. What's good stays good no matter how much of a beating it takes."
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Joe Hill, NOS4A2
9. "Everyone lives in two worlds, Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren’t. Mostly the real world s-s-s-suh-sucks. But everyone also lives in the world inside their own head. An inscape, a world of thought. In a world made of thought—in an inscape—every idea is a fact. Emotions are as real as gravity. Dreams are as powerful as history. Creative people, like writers, and Henry Rollins, spend a lot of their time hanging out in their thoughtworld. S-s-strong creatives, though, can use a knife to cut the stitches between the two worlds, can bring them together. Your bike. My tiles. Those are our knives."
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Joe Hill, NOS4A2