“I know how you feel, Willem," Andy had said in one of their secret conversations, "but he doesn't want you to admire him; he wants you to see him as he is. He wants you to tell him that his life, as inconceivable as it is, is still a life.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“I was aware that I had been looking for him on every street, in every crowd.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“It's impossible to compete with the dead. I wished I could stop trying.”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“You know how people sometimes say they have to hurt because if they don’t, they’re so numb they won’t feel anything?”
― Sharp Objects
― Sharp Objects
“Wasn’t friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
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