There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can …

Chuck Palahniuk
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There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction. ✨ Chuck Palahniuk (2011). Lullaby, p.19, Random House
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