Witches on the Road Tonight (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• “And any part of him she shoots will be true and anything she leaves out will be truth left out and it is the most burdensome responsiblity, this, the art of documentation, because people expect objectivity when in fact all that word can promise is the devolution of what is human and myriad into a jack, a cube of frictionless ice.”

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• We need only for life to teach us the humility with which to give thanks.

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• “Back then people could wait a few days to learn about all the things they couldn’t control,” Eddie answers, returning to the table and his lists. “Nowadays we’re much more impatient for our impotence.”

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• why God created a species that considered itself grown only when it left the place it most longed to be?

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• people will always find a reason to hold on to what they have until they find something they want more. Then they’ll let go, just like that.”

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• If you don’t die with at least a handful of people hating you, you probably haven’t lived a very honest life.”

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• You know they made up the idea of original sin not to punish but to console us. When all the incomprehensible shit goes down, we can blame ourselves, it was something we did or didn’t do. Without guilt, we are irrelevant. And that is so much worse.”

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• The problem is never the war, he wants to tell her, it’s how to live after the battle is over. It’s never the kiss, it’s how to live after the kiss.

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• you will meet people who mean something and you know there is meaning but you don’t know yet whether they are your ruin or salvation and they go underground and live inside you until they reappear maybe years, maybe decades later, but by then you have grown so much of your own skin around them, layer upon layer, you don’t even recognize them anymore, and that’s how you become your own ruin or salvation, that’s the power of not knowing what’s growing inside you, what you’ve lost for so long.

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• And any part of him she shoots will be true and anything she leaves out will be truth left out and it is the most burdensome responsibility, this, the art of documentation, because people expect objectivity when in fact all that word can promise is the devolution of what is human and myriad into a jack, a cube of frictionless ice.

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• She could never have both at once, those two things she needed equally—closeness and distance. Sometimes love demanded one, sometimes the other. No matter what, there was loss.

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• Monsters: These are what we create through our own fears, paradoxically making what we are most afraid of, whether it is humiliating someone to avoid humiliation or hurting someone to avoid being hurt.
• Witchcraft: Witchcraft here is control and responsibility. One can give in to it, thus giving up all the stress and compunction of decision-making or one can wield it, as a form of power over others.

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1. Sheri Holman (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.54

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Literary