“[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air ... Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year's mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Youth hasn't got anything to do with chronological age. It's times of hope and happiness.”
― Crossing to Safety
― Crossing to Safety
“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”
― Angle of Repose
― Angle of Repose
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