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“This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― The Hollow Men
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
― The Hollow Men
“Grief, I’ve learned, is really just love. It’s all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.”
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“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
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“Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.”
― The Midwich Cuckoos
― The Midwich Cuckoos
“I have often wondered what share Racine had in lighting the flame that began to burn in my heart that night, or what share proximity. If she hadn't read just that play or if she hadn't called me up by chance to sit so near her, in such immediate contact, would the inflammable stuff which I carried so unsuspectingly within me have remained perhaps outside the radius of the kindling spark and never caught fire at all? But probably not; sooner or later, it was bound to happen.”
― Olivia
― Olivia
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