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even the strongest have times of weakness. These moments don’t make us less. We can become more when we acknowledge all parts within us.”
“No matter how much time passes, those we have loved never slip away from us entirely.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“...the tenure of friendships has never been governed by the passage of time.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“Without moving he had glanced down at her head, at the steady rise and fall of her breath. She had a tiny mole on the lobe of her left ear. Did she know it was there? It was a lover's privilege to know another's body almost better than she herself did.”
― To Capture What We Cannot Keep
― To Capture What We Cannot Keep
“For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”
― A Gentleman in Moscow
― A Gentleman in Moscow
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