“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth”
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“You know how sometimes you tell yourself that you have a choice, but really you don't have a choice? Just because there are alternatives doesn't mean they apply to you.”
― The 5th Wave
― The 5th Wave
“It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature, but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short. (...) If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That's the world of hicks and slobs. Real people would be ashamed of themselves doing that.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“When you’re surrounded by endless possibilities, one of the hardest things you can do is pass them up.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“He found something that he wanted, had always wanted and always would want -- not to be admired, as he had feared; not to be loved, as he had made himself believe; but to be necessary to people, to be indispensable...'very few things matter and nothing matters very much”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
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