"My food is problematic."

Artificial Limb

“I feel as if part of my soul has been replaced by an artificial limb,” he wrote. It still doesn’t do what I want it to do. Sometimes, in my darkest moments, I’m afraid it might never again obey me, but I haven’t given up hope altogether.”
- The Man Who Smiled, Henning Mankell

Instead of Words

"But instead of a helping hand, Patterson saw the branch of a pear tree and the buzzing of bees jumping from bloom to bloom. He tried to explain this to the voices he heard, but instead of words blood flowed from his mouth."
- Wicked City, Ace Atkins

When We Forgot What We Wanted

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And we became what we become.

Lonely, Wild Places

"Cody doesn't say a word. Just looks at her, then he snaps his cue in two, tosses the pieces onto the table. Picks up his hat and walks out. I see something in his eyes as he leaves, something in the shadows under that low brim. The desert's in there and the timberlands. All the lonely, wild places where he roams--not because anyone makes him, but because he claims he wants to."
- Someplace To Be Flying, Charles de Lint

You Better Watch Your Soul

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It'll leave you like a hundred bucks.

Free

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When the wind wraps me like the reaper’s hand

I will swing free until they cut me down.