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“In a way, when we love fictional characters, knowing that they can never love us in return, is that not a method of practising in miniature the kind of personally disinterested love to which Jesus calls us? I mean that sympathetic engagement is a form of desire with an object but without a subject, a way of wanting without wanting; desiring for others not 'what' I want for myself but 'the way' I want for myself.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“No matter what may happen, through time and tide, through thick and thin, children will always believe.”
― Jack Frost: The End Becomes the Beginning
― Jack Frost: The End Becomes the Beginning
“Per aspera ad astra'. I'd heard a variety of translations, but the one I liked best was 'Through the thorns, to the stars'.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“...maybe for that reason it's time for me to fall in love again. I need to feel that my life has some kind of centre, somewhere for my thoughts to return and rest.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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