“Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, and there is nothing new under the sun, as Solomon said more than three thousand years ago.”
― The Winner Stands Alone
― The Winner Stands Alone
“Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.”
― The Spellmans Strike Again
― The Spellmans Strike Again
“You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.”
― The Graveyard Book
― The Graveyard Book
“I receive your love and I give you mine. Not the love of a man for women, not the love of a father for a child, not the love of God for his creatures, but a love with no name and no explanation, like a river that cannot explain why it follows sometimes we need to be strangers to ourselves. Then the hidden light in our soul will illuminate what we need to see.”
― Aleph
― Aleph
“People only give value to a thing if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they'll get it.”
― The Winner Stands Alone
― The Winner Stands Alone
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