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“I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else's tragedy.
Though it is true, too, that sometimes it is hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.”
― Under the Udala Trees
Though it is true, too, that sometimes it is hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.”
― Under the Udala Trees
“It’s lovely loving, isn’t it? In fact, I find it almost better, because being loved sometimes embarrasses me, but loving is a gift.”
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“But books–they’re different. When you watch a film, you’re sort of an outsider looking in. With a book–you’re right there. You are inside. You are the main character.”
― Solitaire
― Solitaire
“Aunty, whatever the matter, just remember that it is the same moon that wanes today that will be full tomorrow. And even the sun, however long it disappears, it always shines again.”
― Under the Udala Trees
― Under the Udala Trees
“This morning, that morning, was honeycombed with personal restlessness. Evening swells up in lavender, blue, black in these parts, the twenty-thousand-fathom sea of acceptance and a sort of timeless soothing, only to be worried out of its mind by a scratch-rash epidemic of star-white.”
― The Acolyte
― The Acolyte
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