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“Clean clothes. Gentle talk. Someone to wake up with. Maybe relationships would work if they were based on present-tense actions that never looked for a future beyond the next day.”
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“But someone who has been busted broke, if they can take care of themselves from that point, they act different. They build their own fires.”
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“I threw both my phones in, one after the other. The splashing sounds they made in the dark were like two trout rising for stoneflies. Trout that sleep in the eddies behind round river boulders. Trout that wake up at dawn and hide all day by pretending to be shadows.”
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“My sadness, and especially my joy, one moment was solid, but then the next it was empty space.”
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

“I used to study the night, the stars, while camping next to my car. I learned names from an old star chart that I carried along with my highway maps. Mintaka, in Orion’s Belt, the bright left eye of the Bull. Sirius. Vega. Trying for a direction beyond anywhere possible, I looked at distant points of bright light. I wished that I could find out where I was going by navigating by the light that had traveled forever.”
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder
― Paper Targets: Art Can Be Murder

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