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“I preferred to read than talk with the others.”
― Burial Rites
― Burial Rites
“nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“Someone who thinks death is the scariest thing doesn't know a thing about life.”
― The Secret Life of Bees
― The Secret Life of Bees
“Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.”
― Shantaram
― Shantaram
“making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
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