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“You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can't. You have to do things.”
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“When you live in the dark for so long, you begin to love it. And it loves you back, and isn’t that the point? You think, the face turns to the shadows, and just as well. It accepts, it heals, it allows. But it also devours.”
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“This is being written in another seaside cottage on another coast. Gin and whiskey have bitten rings in the table where I sit.”
― The Stories of John Cheever
― The Stories of John Cheever
“I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...”
― Desolation Angels
― Desolation Angels
“I'm sorry. I didn't know you were coming or I'd have cleaned up a little more. My life, I mean, not just the apartment.”
― The Time Traveler's Wife
― The Time Traveler's Wife
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