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It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.

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Isaac Marion
Age: 42
Born: 1981
Born: December 30
Music Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Rare
Usually
Books
Read
Three
Two
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We eat and sleep and shuffle through the fog, walking a marathon with no finish line, no medals, no cheering.
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But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to me the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are.
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I can’t seem to make myself care about anything to the right or left of the present.
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We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.
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She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.
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Sometimes it's a struggle to live in the moment.
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A month ago there was nothing on Earth I missed, enjoyed, or longed for. I knew I could lose everything and not feel anything, and I rested easy in that knowledge. But I'm growing tired of easy things.
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...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
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Here it comes. My inevitable death, ignoring me all those years when I wished for it daily, arriving only after I've decided I want to live forever.
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Soft flesh is eaten by hard teeth.
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I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
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I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
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My favorite songs change every year.
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That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.
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...thinking all this maximalism would somehow generate happiness?
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You should always be taking pictures, if not with a camera then with your mind. Memories you capture on purpose are always more vivid than the ones you pick up by accident.
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I can no longer believe in any voodoo spell or laboratory virus. This is something deeper, darker. This comes from the cosmos, from the stars, or the unknown blackness behind them. The shadows in God's boarded-up basement.
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I feel an unfamiliar but pleasant sensation in my lips, tugging them upward. This is... new.
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It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.
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Just... ate, M says, frowning at me a little. Two days...ago. I grab my stomach again. Feel empty. Feel... dead. He nods. Marr...iage.
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