They’re inside me, part of me, branded into my skin, you might say—but they’re not memories I want to live with, because there’s no experience to be gained from them. There are no words I can use to describe them that don’t trivialize them.
“I worked it out sitting here. Maybe that’s the thing we need to understand, Alice. That some things are a gift, even if you don’t get to keep them.”
There was a silence before he spoke again.
“Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.”
― The Giver of Stars
There was a silence before he spoke again.
“Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists is all we can really ask for.”
― The Giver of Stars
“I think we just keep going on. We keep doing what we always do and someday it'll feel right again.”
― Ordinary Grace
― Ordinary Grace
“I wished I had been there when the bombs fell, to have opened my mouth and swallowed their ordinance. Then spit it all back at them.”
― The Boat Runner
― The Boat Runner
“We can’t know why we are dying in the same way we can’t know why we are living. Living and dying are both complete mysteries, and toy can’t know either until you have done both.”
“That’s poetic. And ironic.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“That’s poetic. And ironic.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
“Lenni," she said softly, "you're the bravest person I know."
"Why?"
"You just are," she said, and the moment fell between us."
"Dying isn't brave," I said, "it's accidental. I'm not brave, I'm just not dead yet.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
"Why?"
"You just are," she said, and the moment fell between us."
"Dying isn't brave," I said, "it's accidental. I'm not brave, I'm just not dead yet.”
― The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
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