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She was young enough to think that drama was something you had to run toward. She had no idea that drama doesn’t need to be chased. It knows exactly where you live.
“Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses.”
― The Electric Michelangelo
― The Electric Michelangelo
“The man had added to his body in a way that was brave and timeless and beyond adornment.”
― The Electric Michelangelo
― The Electric Michelangelo
“One thing I will say, they often take it better than a man. Pain, that is. Probably the residue of tolerance from when they were all bloody witches and got stoned or burned or drowned for it, eh lad? Never tell your mother I said that, by the way.”
― The Electric Michelangelo
― The Electric Michelangelo
“People went through life like well handled jugs, collecting chips and scrapes and stains from wear and tear, from holding and pouring life.”
― The Electric Michelangelo
― The Electric Michelangelo
“Elliot Rawley was a drinker, Cy’s mother had been right. And he was a poor drinker. One that let the demons of the bottle into his head when he tipped it back, demons that went about unloosing all the trouble they could find stashed in the catacombs of his mind. Every tragic thing that had ever happened, every self-doubt, every delusion, freed itself from bondage and revisited him when he drank.”
― The Electric Michelangelo
― The Electric Michelangelo
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