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“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.”
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“The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you. It's the same as going on a vacation. Some people spend all their time on a vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence that they had a good time. They don't pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.”
― E. L. Konigsburg, From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
― E. L. Konigsburg, From The Mixed Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”
― From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
“She stabbed the earth with her big fork as if she could make Cookie Mac’s blood sprout from it.”
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
― The Alchemy Fire Murder
“His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.”
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
“What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one willfully and in a cloud of unspeakable radiance away from health, domesticity, civic responsibility and strong social connections and all the blandly-held common virtues and instead straight towards a beautiful flare of ruin, self-immolation, disaster?”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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