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• “If anyone ever told five-year-olds the truth about life, he thought, there’d be a rash of kindergarten suicides.”

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• “You two have sex every time you look at each other; sleeping together is just a formality you haven’t gotten around to yet.”

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• “There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven’t started yet.”

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• “When the sun comes out in Hawaii, it warms up. When the sun comes in Puerto Vallarta, it warms up. when the sun comes out in Minnesota in January, you just go snow-blind.”

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• “God made ice for hockey and scotch, and that's about it.”

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• “No, it's because every goddamned winter, the brain cells that know how miserable it is here freeze and die. It takes 'em all summer to grow back, and then it's winter all over again and the whole ugle process starts over.”

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• “But if you don’t talk about the people you’ve loved and lost, they just fade away.”

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• “pg 132
  '...the one and only time in his career he'd been tempted to draw his weapon was when a swarm of gnats had descended on him in the motel parking lot. And what was so wrong about killing all the insects? Who cared if the frogs died with them? The only thing frogs were good for was keeping the insect population down, and clearly they were lousy at that.”

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• “Suffer the dark, go to the light whenever it's there.”

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• “he held deep contempt for Amanda White on principle,”

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• “You know the worst thing about bad people, Grace? It’s what they make good people do.”

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• “The Chatham’s lobby décor was modern, serene, and understated—dignified hipster meets Tibetan monk—but the heavy police presence outside the sparkling glass doors was ruining the carefully curated Zen atmosphere. Even the potted orchids looked stressed out.”

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• “True happiness isn’t enhanced by pleasure or diminished by sadness, but exists in spite of those things.”

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• “There was a gentle swell to the land here. Not so much that you’d call it rolling—hell, when the land rolled in Minnesota, they called it a mountain range—this was more like the lazy waves on the Pacific when it was bedding down for the night.”

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• “Happy endings were few and far between, and all too often, families lived in a hellish limbo for months or years, constantly searching for answers and closure they might never”

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• “As she had learned these past few years, things changed—life, people, animals—all without your permission, no matter how zealously you fought to maintain supreme control.”

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• “They passed a bank thermometer that read twenty degrees, but from the cold air blowing into the car, Halloran thought that was pretty optimistic. He’d heard once that all the thermometers in Minnesota were calibrated ten degrees high, just to keep the population from moving en masse.”

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• “We all walk around with holes in our hearts. But we still walk around.”

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• “Magozzi tried to grimace away a growing headache. He wanted to curl up in a ball in the corner, but when Gino was on a fishing expedition for mermaids, you had to throw in a courtesy line.”

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• “She was Channel Ten’s new replacement for the obnoxious Kristin Keller, a journalist who had never let the facts interfere with her reporting or derail her career trajectory.”

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• “IOMW.”

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• “Magozzi was still smiling, which seemed absolutely inappropriate given the information he was about to deliver, but when had life ever been anything but a sketch in light and dark? Suffer the dark, go to the light whenever it's there.”

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