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“Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible.”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“We kissed each other until we were too tired to keep going. I could still feel him holding back. It was my penance for what I had done to him. All I could do was hope the walls would fall and that I could have all of him again, but I was always leaving and he was tired of watching me walk away. We both knew that I couldn’t stay and that he couldn’t come with me, but still, we couldn’t let go.”
― Loved
― Loved
“But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
“As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.”
― 1Q84
― 1Q84
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