“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“I don't recognize myself. I don't know who I am anymore."
And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.”
― Savages
And it's all fun and games until someone loses an I.”
― Savages
“After this, I couldn't hear their voices any longer; for in my ears I heard a sound like a bird's wings flapping in panic. Perhaps it was my heart, I don't know. But if you've ever seen a bird trapped inside the great hall of a temple, looking for some way out, well, that was how my mind was reacting. It had never occurred to me that my mother wouldn't simply go on being sick. I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“I went back to those graves not long afterward and found as I stood there that sadness was a very heavy thing. My body weighed twice what it had only a moment earlier, as if those graves were pulling me down toward them.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“They haven't made a drug that can touch this pain," Clarence said. "I feel like I'm made of pain.”
― Bruce
― Bruce
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