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“What just happened?"
"Your father invited the former love of your life in for pie."
"Yeah, that's what I thought.”
― Lola and the Boy Next Door
"Your father invited the former love of your life in for pie."
"Yeah, that's what I thought.”
― Lola and the Boy Next Door

“It never was any better, it never will be any better. It will only be richer or poorer, sadder but not wiser, until the very last day.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz

“The Bhagavad Gita—that ancient Indian Yogic text—says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”
― Eat, Pray, Love
― Eat, Pray, Love

“Some days are better than others, for human optimism has no limits.”
― The Arbitrator
― The Arbitrator

“The days seemed to stretch out toward infinity, blank and humid, without purpose, and at night I was kept awake by the endless drone of mosquitoes and helicopters. (Why wars must be contested under such conditions I shall never understand. Is not death sufficient?)”
― Tomcat in Love
― Tomcat in Love
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