“I loved you once is among the saddest lines in humanity.”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
“It was a condensed explanation, but I came to understand him to mean you could stop at, not all, but most of the moments of your life, stop for one heartbeat and, no matter what the state of your head or heart, say This is happiness, because of the simple truth that you were alive to say it.”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
“The truth is, like all places in the past, it cannot be found any longer.”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
“It is a dolorous fact that a meal, months in the dreaming, weeks in the planning and days in the preparation, is eaten in minutes.”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
“I’m at an age now when in the early mornings I’m often revisited by all my own mistakes, stupidities and unintended cruelties. They sit around the edge of the bed and look at me and say nothing. But I see them well enough.”
― This Is Happiness
― This Is Happiness
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