Steve Toltz Short Quotes

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The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.

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To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

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I wondered if it was blasphemous to tell God that rainbows are kitsch.

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Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

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Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it's more exhausting than lifting pianos.

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I think that's the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the boundaries that will limit your potential.

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I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.

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What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

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We're always sick and we just don't know it. What we mean by health is only when our constant physical deterioration is undetectable.

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People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces. Also bitterness if there's room.

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I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from the beasts.

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She gave me a look that deftly combined tenderness with revulsion. To this day the memory of that look still visits me like a Jehovah's Witness: uninvited and tireless.

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When we finished the kiss she said laughing, I can taste your loneliness - it tastes like vinegar. That annoyed me. Everyone knows loneliness tastes like cold potato soup.

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After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back at ourselves in the receding past and think, What an arsehole!

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