“No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
“If you need me, use me.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
“My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope.”
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
― The Island of Dr. Moreau
“But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't.”
― The Plague
― The Plague
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