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“Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
“A woman fallen has no future; a man risen has no past.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
“All men want their whores to be unhappy.”
― The Luminaries
― The Luminaries
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