Iga
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“If you had to choose when, in the timeline of the earth, you got to live—wouldn’t you choose the end? You haven’t missed anything, then. You die in 1920, you miss rock and roll. You die in 1600, you miss Mozart. Right? I mean, the horrors pile up, too, but no one wants to die before the end of the story.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“It's always a matter, isn't it, of waiting for the world to come unraveled? When things hold together, it's always only temporary.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“They meant well, all of them. How could she explain that this city was a graveyard? That they were walking every day through streets where there had been a holocaust, a mass murder of neglect and antipathy, that when they stepped through a pocket of cold air, didn’t they understand it was a ghost, it was a boy the world had spat out?”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“You’ll never know anyone’s marriage but your own. And even then, you’ll only know half of it.”
― The Great Believers
― The Great Believers
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
― The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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