“Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential to her. The pleasure of being on one's own was not so much spiritual as sensuous, like wearing silk, or swimming without a bathing suit, or walking along a totally empty beach with the sun on your back. One was restored by solitude. Refreshed.”
― Coming Home
― Coming Home
“Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).”
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“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― The Shell Seekers
― The Shell Seekers
“Admiro tu capacidad para ponerte en la piel de los demás, para comprender sus razones. Sólo se puede vencer a los adversarios si uno es capaz de pensar como ellos, de lo contrario uno termina engañándose a sí mismo.”
― Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto
― Dispara, yo ya estoy muerto
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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