These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.
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Zum Autor"« Stan wants to see them work the facial features, especially the smiles. He has a professional interest, from his job at Dimple. The Empathy Model he’d worked on could smile, but it was the same smile every time. Though what else did you need for checking out groceries? Put two eyes on anything and basically it looks like a face. »."
"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
"You're sad because you're sad.It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.Go see a shrink or take a pill,or hug your sadness like an eyeless dollyou need to sleep.Well, all children are sadbut some get over it.Count your blessings. Better than that,buy a hat. Buy a coat or a pet.Take up dancing to forget."
"No mother is ever, completely, a child's idea of what a mother should be, and I suppose it works the other way around as well."
"There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently."