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Do you have any idea what the typical response is whenever I do give someone a glimpse of my life?"
Gideon paused, as if he waited for her to answer.
And Monroe hesitated. Yes. She did know. She knew because it was the same response she would get it she chose to let down her own guard. Hell, it was practically the same response Miles had given the night she had told him the unadulterated truth of her past. She shook her head again.
"Standard response," he said. "I swear to God. First thing out of their mouth's is: 'Wow. It's shocking you're so normal.' What the fuck? Do I have to be damaged for my past to make sense? And what the hell is normal anyway? And does white bread America have dibs on it?"
Gideon stopped talking, crossed his arms, and the look on his face said he regretted saying as much as he had. — Taylor Stevens

If I just produce the transparent ideal accepted by the Western experts, a process of privatization which will be very good but never happen, that means nothing. — Anatoly Chubais

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay. — Isaac Watts

Listen to me or don't. But if you don't, you'll be dead. And then where will you be? Dead, that's where. — John Scalzi

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood

I was here on earth because I chose to be. — John Cheever

And yet love obstinately answers that no loved one is standardized. A body, love insists, is neither a spirit nor a machine; it is not a picture, a diagram, a chart, a graph, an anatomy; it is not an explanation; it is not a law. It is precisely and uniquely what it is. It belongs to the world of love, which is a world of living creatures, natural orders and cycles, many small, fragile lights in the dark. — Wendell Berry

I should call myself four market Norton. I'm great in Boston and Cleveland. I do good in Phillie, New Jersey. — Jim Norton

The feeble soul merely whines and complains. — Taylor Caldwell