“He died violent and young and desperate, just like we all knew he'd die someday.”
― The Outsiders
― The Outsiders
“Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.”
― The One
― The One
“If you're happy in a dream, does that count?”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother’s birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you: you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
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