I opened the book to the title page, which said the book was "A Fictional Memoir." I had no idea what this meant, except that maybe it was one of the ways that Exley was crazy: maybe when he called his book a fictional memoir, it meant that he couldn't make up his mind, which is one of the things people really mean when they call someone crazy.

Brock Clarke


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If a book is made up of things that are hard to believe, then we were like something out of a book.

Brock Clarke


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Some people, when desperate, retreat to pills or hard liquor. I nap.

Brock Clarke


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Maybe that's the problem with being someplace beautiful: it makes it impossible to live anywhere else that's not.

Brock Clarke


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I didn't normally talk this way: but sometimes you have to pretend to be an innocent child to learn something about the complicated world of adults.

Brock Clarke


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I almost touch her on the arm as she touched me on the arm, to console her. But I fear that my touch won't tingle her arm as hers tingled mine, and how unbearably sad that would be.

Brock Clarke


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I took notes as they divided the world between those who had stuff taken away from them, and those who took, those who did bad things in a good way- gracefully, effortlessly- and those bumblers who bumbled their way through life.

Brock Clarke


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Oh no," I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then "oh no" is apparently that song's chorus, the words we always return to.

Brock Clarke

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There's nothing as quiet as that moment before one person is about to tell another something neither of them wants to hear.

Brock Clarke


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Love is not wanting the thing you love to ever end.

Brock Clarke


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