Adam Johnson (writer) - The Orphan Master's Son (2012)

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The light, the sky, the water, they were all things you looked *through* during the day. At night, they were things you looked *into*. You looked *into* the stars, you looked *into* dark rollers and the surprising platinum flash of their caps.

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Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range

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But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

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Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.

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Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses?

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The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

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