“And that’s when my allotment of not saying a word was all used up.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“That’s the sort of thing young people do: fan the flames of each other’s expectations—until the necessities of life begin to make themselves known.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“He calls you to your feet by making you feel alone and forgotten. For only when you have seen that you are truly forsaken will you embrace the fact that what happens next rests in your hands, and your hands alone.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
“The fate of a single person can mean many things, the fate of several hundred is hard to encompass; but the history of thousands, millions, means essentially nothing at all.”
― Solaris
― Solaris
“You could almost hear the thumb of reality beginning to press down on that spot in the soul from which youthful enthusiasm springs.”
― The Lincoln Highway
― The Lincoln Highway
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