When you’re young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past.”
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
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“Time is wicked. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, stealing our youth, our beauty, and our bodies.”
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
“you do with an unattainable crush once it’s yours to keep? What does it become? Should there perhaps be a word to describe it? Because that’s the thing with getting what you want: all that yearning and dreaming and fantasizing leaves a great big hole that can only be filled with more yearning and dreaming and fantasizing.”
― Watching You
― Watching You
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country
“But to my mother—I suspect to all mothers—their little boys will always be their little boys, no matter how old those boys become.”
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
― The Extraordinary Life of Sam Hell
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