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“Have been unavoidably detained by the world. Expect us when you see us.”
― Stardust
― Stardust
“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
― Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
“It's one of the secrets of strength: We're so much more likely to find it in the service of others than we are to find it in ourselves.”
― Two Boys Kissing
― Two Boys Kissing
“The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had done so for a long time. Harold could no longer pass a stranger without acknowledging the truth that everyone was the same, and also unique; and that this was the dilemma of being human.”
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
― The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
“That life - whatever else it is - is short. That fate is cruel but maybe not random. That Nature (meaning Death) always wins but that doesn’t mean we have to bow and grovel to it. That maybe even if we’re not always so glad to be here, it’s our task to immerse ourselves anyway: wade straight through it, right through the cesspool, while keeping eyes and hearts open. And in the midst of our dying, as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn’t touch.”
― The Goldfinch
― The Goldfinch
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