“But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.”
― The Bridge on the Drina
― The Bridge on the Drina
“it’s time I fear.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“If there's one thing i know, it's that no one can promise anything.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“You might expect me to say “life,” having just woken up and all, but it’s only when I’m awake that I think about dying.”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
“I skim through our notebook, thick with words, and then through our Facebook messages—so many now—and then I write a new one, quoting Virginia Woolf: “Let us wander whirling to the gilt chairs.… Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here …?”
― All the Bright Places
― All the Bright Places
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