Grave Talk
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Grief doesn’t keep that anger focused in one place. It likes to leap around. One minute you’re angry that other people don’t know how you feel, then you’re angry at the hospital because they couldn’t save him, then you’re angry at yourself
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“I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.”
― Shirley
― Shirley
“How strange it is, that a fool or a knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty!”
― The Mysteries of Udolpho
― The Mysteries of Udolpho
“Remember, too, that one act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world. Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.”
― The Mysteries of Udolpho
― The Mysteries of Udolpho
“Our lives are one masked ball.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting: it warms it, but not to fever. I like to taste leisurely of bliss: devoured in haste, I do not know its flavour.”
― Shirley
― Shirley
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