Bennett Madison Quotes

• And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

  Bennett Madison

  Ocean, Swim

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• We have learned by now that our beauty does not count as a possession. The only thing we truly own is our legend.

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  Doe, Legends, Possession

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• The world rushes through us. We are peaceful. We are as deep and black as space. Staring up at the stars, we see only our own image reflected back at us. We are infinite and we are ravenous.

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  Stars, Space, Peaceful

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• We are renters and borrowers and, in the end, only thieves.

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  Thieves, Ends, Borrowers

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• Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.

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  Men, Bullshit, Trying

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• Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered legitimate. My father is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who takes hours with his turn and then plays deliberately misspelled words that no one has the heart to call him out on. I am the perfect Scrabble player, both serious and considerate. Obviously I lost by a lot.

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  Father, Heart, Player

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• The summer following the winter that my mother took off into something called Women's Land for what I could only guess would be all eternity, my father decided that there was no choice but for him to quit his despised job and take me and my brother to the beach for at least the entire summer and possibly longer.

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  Summer, Mother, Beach

  Bennett Madison (2013). “September Girls”, p.5, Harper Collins

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