“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
“You’ve built the fire up way too hot,” I told her. “Go to hell, Leah, just go straight, directly to hell.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember. Think of the vine that curls from the small square plot that was once my heart. That is the only marker you need. Move on. Walk forward into the light.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
“Magazines are very popular, despite no human’s ever feeling better for having read them. Indeed, their chief purpose is to generate a sense of inferiority in the reader that consequently leads to a feeling of needing to buy something, which the humans then do, and then feel even worse, and so need to buy another magazine to see what they can buy next. It is an eternal and unhappy spiral that goes by the name of capitalism, and it is really quite popular.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“The horror! The horror!”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
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