Wanna stab yourself in the stomach? Have a kid and then read King's Pet Cemetery a few weeks later.
I made this mistake. Very few books have made me break down and cry. That was one of them.
On The Beach and The Road are two others I can think of right now.
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
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