“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“I love my murderer--but yours? How can I?”
― Wuthering Heights
― Wuthering Heights
“But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible — something that remained of men who had walked and talked with one and told one stories, men whom one had loved and looked up to. But where had it gone? It was all very puzzling, and he did not understand.”
― The Far Pavilions
― The Far Pavilions
“Why are we embarrassed by silence? What comfort do we find in all the noise?”
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
― Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer: let him step to the music that he hears.”
― The Far Pavilions
― The Far Pavilions
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