When I fell, every future move exploded apart in my mind, a deck of cards thrown in the air.
“I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― The World As I See It
― The World As I See It
“I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.”
― The Stranger
― The Stranger
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”
― A Tale of Two Cities
― A Tale of Two Cities
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
― To the Lighthouse
― To the Lighthouse
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