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“His eyes seem to see nothing. He is a man whose soul has died and whose body is waiting to catch up with it.”
― Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey

“Once you name something, it stops you seeing the whole of it, or why it matters. You focus on the word, which is just the tiniest part, really, the tip of an iceberg.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“We're born, we live, we die," he says, "and the choices we make in the middle, all those things we agonize over day after day, none of those matter in the end.”
― Kate Elizabeth Russell, My Dark Vanessa

“Somehow grasping at vanishing snowflakes is like grasping at happiness: an act of possession that instantly gives way to nothing. It reminded me that there was a world outside this house: a world of vastness and unimaginable beauty; a world that for now, remained out of my reach. That memory had repeatedly returned to me over the years. It's as if the misery that surrounded that brief moment of freedom made it burn even brighter: a tiny light surrounded by darkness.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient