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“This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?”
― Written on the Body
― Written on the Body
“There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable. The essential, however, was to know how to play, and she and I, only she and I, knew how to do it.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
“Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting.”
― Rose Under Fire
― Rose Under Fire
“But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It's good. Even when it's bad, it's good.”
― One Last Stop
― One Last Stop
“Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.”
― My Brilliant Friend
― My Brilliant Friend
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