“You've got to see Venice," he began. "You've got to see a city of slender towers and white domes, sleeping in the water like a mass of water lilies. You've got to see dark waterways, mysterious threads of shadow, binding all these flowers of stone together.”
― The City of Beautiful Nonsense
― The City of Beautiful Nonsense
“No one goes on, but what we leave behind keeps us alive for someone else.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
“There has to be more to life than just imagining a future for yourself. I can't just wish for the future; I have to take risks to create it.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
“Valancy held Cissy close. She was suddenly happy. Here was someone who needed her – someone she could help. She was no longer a superfluity. Old things had passed away; everything had become new.”
― The Blue Castle
― The Blue Castle
“I've spent years living safely to secure a longer life, and look where that's gotten me. I'm at the finish line but I never ran the race.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
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