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“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
“Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.”
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“Maybe he’s become addicted to living, he thinks, its gentle terror like the rush of insect wings against his face.”
― Gone
― Gone
“But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.”
― Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
― Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
“...My husband made my dreams come true, and because he could do that I married him."
Then he says softly, as if to himself, "But what about love?"
She heard that. A slight smile comes to her lips.
"Do you still have all the ideals, all the ideals that you took to that distant world with you? Are they all still intact , or have some of them died or withered away? Haven't they been torn out of you by force and flung in the dirt, where thousands of wheels carrying vehicles to their owners' destination in life crushed them? Or have you lost none of them?”
― Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
Then he says softly, as if to himself, "But what about love?"
She heard that. A slight smile comes to her lips.
"Do you still have all the ideals, all the ideals that you took to that distant world with you? Are they all still intact , or have some of them died or withered away? Haven't they been torn out of you by force and flung in the dirt, where thousands of wheels carrying vehicles to their owners' destination in life crushed them? Or have you lost none of them?”
― Letter from an Unknown Woman and Other Stories
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