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“having a child, I thought, was something you should actively want, crave, even. It was not a venture for the ambivalent or passionless.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“What he knew, he knew from books, and books lied, they made things prettier.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“But now it seems possible that the truth about getting older is that there are fewer and fewer things to make fun of until finally there is nothing you are sure you will never be.”
― Dept. of Speculation
― Dept. of Speculation
“Well, then, however the old sea-captains may order me about--however they may thump and punch me about, I have the satisfaction of knowing that it is all right; that everybody else is one way or other served in much the same way--either in a physical or metaphysical point of view, that is; and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other's shoulder-blades, and be content.”
― Moby Dick
― Moby Dick
“All womens not alike, Tobias, she say. Believe it or not.
Oh, I believe it, he say. Just can't prove it to the world.”
― The Color Purple
Oh, I believe it, he say. Just can't prove it to the world.”
― The Color Purple
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