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I think...I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.
Fragile Things (2006)
The average daytime speed of a vehicle through the streets of central London has not changed in four hundred years. It’s still under ten miles an hour.
Fragile Things (2006)
“It can’t make things any worse.”
“If there’s one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse,” said my friend.
Fragile Things (2006)
But where does contagion end and art begin?
Fragile Things (2006)
The map was gone, and the mapmaker, but the land lives on.
Fragile Things (2006)
New Orleans is a real place, which is more than I can say about most of the cities I’ve lived in, but it’s not a safe place, not a friendly one.
Fragile Things (2006)
And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.
Fragile Things (2006)
It was cold, in a way that Shadow was starting to become familiar with: colder inside the building than out. He wondered how they did that, if it was a British building secret.
Fragile Things (2006)
I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It’s as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get.
Fragile Things (2006)
My grandpa sells condoms to sailors
He punctures the tips with a pin
My grandma does back-street abortions
My God how the money rolls in.
Fragile Things (2006)
If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?
Fragile Things (2006)
I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples — and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.
Fragile Things (2006)
She does not know where any tale waits
before it's told. (No more do I.)
But forty thieves sounds good, so forty
thieves it is. She prays she's bought another clutch of days.
We save our lives in such unlikely ways.
Fragile Things (2006)