"Then We Came to the End"

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• Genevieve didn't lack for more suggestions. "Pump 'MISSING' up a little," said Jim Jackers.
• "It is my chair," he said. "He rolled it down to me..."
• ... even a trampoline in the yard across the way. Some little girl had bounced up and down, up and down as Brizz's totem pole stood impervious and resolute.
• All we could agree on was the sight of Brizz smoking outside the building in winter in nothing to keep him warm but his sweater vest. That was a story Brizz owned, but was it a story?
• "I think you're wrong, Don," said Sam. "I think you can ask a grandpa if he cut the ears off Chinese people."
• You went so that when you got back to the office, you, too, could testify that you had seen it - Janine Gorjanc in the pool of plastic balls - and what a peculiar sight it was.
• "I listened to Karen Woo give an explanation of photosynthesis once," he said. "...They hung on her every word, like she was a PBS special. Her explanation didn't even involve sunlight."
• "There is no word for me. Someone better, smarter, more humane than any group. The opposite of an elitist, in a way. But that's not say," he added, "that I'm not good and fucked up. And full of shame."
• Marcia was the rare one among us who used the occasion of other people's cruelty to be reminded of her own, and to feel bad about both.
• Garrulousness and a natural amiability - that was the nature of heroism in the confines we shared during that more innocent time, and when they took Benny, they took away our hero.
• "I need multiple floors. I've learned this about myself. I'm a creature whose natural habitat is multiple floors."
• Tom Mota... wore a goatee and was built like a bulldog.
• We were amused by his sincere tone and his talk of man's infinite worthiness.

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