“You can love someone and still choose to say goodbye to them,” she says now. “You can miss a person every day, and still be glad that they are no longer in your life.”
― Educated
― Educated
“. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“The decisions I made after that moment were not the ones she would have made. They were the choices of a changed person, a new self.
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education”
― Educated
You could call this selfhood many things. Transformation. Metamorphosis. Falsity. Betrayal.
I call it an education”
― Educated
“What we find exotic abroad may be what we hunger for in vain at home.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
“It was part of his nature to extenuate nothing and live on as one of his own worst accusers.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
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