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William Ngaruiya

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William’s Quotes

“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?”
― Sally Rooney, Beautiful World, Where Are You

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“There's a difference between really loving someone and loving the idea of her.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

tags: idealizations, love

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“Something bad was going to happen. My wife was being clever again”
― Gillian Flynn

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“The world is almost peaceful when you stop trying to understand it.”
― Elizabeth Acevedo, The Poet X

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“When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep,eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning -- how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.”
― Lord Byron

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