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“Diplomat does not mean nice,” muttered the spider mech. “Diplomat means tell the aliens to leave us alone.”


“New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but it’s not, it’s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has been cast as the star in a movie about their life, so they’re one step removed from it. And then in September it all gets normal again.”
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

“It seemed that everyone else could mate, could fit their parts together in pleasant and productive ways, but that some almost indistinguishable difference in my anatomy and psyche set me slightly, yet irrevocably, apart.”
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

“O light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
― L’été
― L’été

“I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people.”
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

“I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn’t get any worse.”
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You
― Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You

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