“The Lonliest Man in the World, she said, only has room in his heart for one person, and if he can't have that person, he locks himself away. He tells himself no one could possibly love him, but really, it's that he refuses to love anyone else.”
― City on Fire
― City on Fire
“Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.”
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“At the turn of the nineteenth century, Greece could boast the highest proportion of university students among its population across Europe”
― Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
― Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
“Greece was born in a state of economic default and international receivership.”
― Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
― Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
― True Love
― True Love
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