“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
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham”
― The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Daniel H. Burnham”
― The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
“Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.”
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
― The Mayor of Casterbridge
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
― Educated
― Educated
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