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- Of course, everyone’s parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.
- There’s a lot of things it’s hard to forgive, but then one day you turn around and you’ve got no family left.”
- “He was not a god. He was my dad.” “You can be both,” she said. “It happens.”
- Fat Charlie looked at the sunrise. Red sky in the morning, he thought. Sailor’s warning.
- Blood calls to blood like sirens in the night.
- for she could smell fear like a shark scenting blood across the bay.
- The expression that made its way across her mother’s face then was a cloud of wasps arriving at a picnic.
- Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them.
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